By Karen Sloan
The discrepancy points to a disturbing trend in law school admissions, according to the National Native American Bar Association Center for Racial and Ethnic Diversity: That some law school applicants falsely report that they are Native American.
The ABA's House of Delegates approved a resolution on Monday urging the Law School Admissions Council and ABA-approved law schools to require additional information from people who indicate on their registration for the Law School Admission Test and law school applications that they are Native American. Specifically, that information about their tribal citizenship, tribal affiliation or enrollment number. Applicants who don't belong to a tribe recognized by the government would provide a "heritage statement."
In a report accompanying the resolution, the National Native American Bar Association wrote that the false reporting of Native American status is a "large, systemic problem" that amounts to "academic ethnic fraud."
Pretendians
ReplyDeleteThis is Institutional Racism. It seems that the *SUPREME* and "superior" White man in the system are somewhat aghast at the thought of more Native Americans becoming educated. It scares them.
ReplyDeleteRegardless if they are Native or not, its also a fact that more Natives are indeed becoming more educated now than any time in recent or distant memory.
There's institutional racism alright. In the form of racist quotas (affirmative action). At the University of Michigan law school, for example, applicants are boosted or denied based on their ethnicity. This encourages 'pretendians'.
ReplyDeleteThe solution is to admit students with absolutely no regard to ethnicity/race. On real merit.