Colleges caught stacking publicity photos with minorities
Sphere: Related ContentA new report from the online magazine Inside Higher Ed reveals that a researcher has caught universities loading their publicity photographs with black students.
“Sometimes you see the same black kid in every picture,” said George Dehne, who runs an admissions consulting firm and was quoted in the online report.
“We tell colleges that it’s a mistake and they shouldn’t do it, but we get overruled,” he said.
The report said an Augsburg College sociologist worked with an undergraduate to review the viewbooks of hundreds of randomly selected four-year colleges and universities. Numbers and percentages on racially identifiable student photographs were collected, as well as the actual minority make-up of the student bodies.
“The findings: Black students make up an average of 7.9 percent of students at the colleges studied, but 12.4 percent of those in viewbooks. Asian students are also more likely to be found in viewbooks than on campus, making up 3.3 percent of real students on average and 5.1 percent of portrayed students,” the report said.
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July 5th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Sometimes you see the same black kid in every picture…
Trophy Negro. Who’da thought?
Suppose it’s not surprising, they do the same thing with hot chicks. Check the photos and you’ll never see a whale in a tube top devouring a bag full of chips, even though you know they have a Women’s Studies program.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
El Borak: Hahahahaha! True!