Chetly Zarko, who has already made a nice contribution here today, has posted on his own blog some persuasive evidence that the University of Michigan padded its short list of presidential candidates with the names of minorities and women in whom it had no serious interest just to make its affirmative action numbers look good.
In one of many documents the university was ordered by a court to release,
Virginia N. [Nordby, then-Director of Affirmative Action] says that it is totally proper to add back names to a list for affirmative action purposes.
She advises search committees to do that all the time.
Well, of course she did, and no doubt she’s right that “search committees do that all the time.” No wonder affirmative action often breeds such contempt.
