What does racial diversity have to do with academic achievement?

More on that in a moment on the Face The State Radio Minute.

Melissa Hart is a professor of law at the University of Colorado at Boulder. So, you’d expect her to be an expert in logical argumentation, someone who strives for air-tight reasoning. Well, maybe not.

Prof. Hart recently appeared on a Denver radio station in opposition to Amendment 46, the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative. She says without race preferences in college admissions, students would be sitting in classrooms full of “overprivileged” people who “all look the same.”

The concept of privilege and oppression is a favorite touchstone for those in the ivory tower. But forcing racial diversity through admissions policy discounts academic rigor and assumes skin color is connected to aptitude. Who cares what the students look like? What do they think and what can they do?

There you have it - Race profiling - endorsed by your CU law faculty.

For FaceTheState.com, I’m Brad Jones.