In reading all of the various comments and expressed concerns by both students and parents alike, we as a nation are missing the opportunity that these types of speeches on Affirmative Action programs will offer in terms of presenting a resolve.
In having worked for the Law School Admissions Services (LSAS) organization some thirty years ago, we expressed the very concerns of what now has become a forefront of discussion within this nation. And in anticipation of this idea, we engaged in a thought process that could someday resolve this dispute regarding admissions at the various levels of higher education that Mr. Noguera touched upon.
And in respects to his challenge in proving him wrong, the answer will not come from an inspired generation of the future but from the voices of Law Admissions of the past.
With the tools and technology now available, The Department of Justice has a complete and detailed proposal that can now resolve university admissions for Law
School, and with slight modifications, can be applied to medical school admissions as well. And in keeping within the scope of the old regents of the law school
Admissions Council (LCAC), a process could easily be developed that would acknowledge candidates for the various undergraduate programs offered by our colleges and universities by which our seniors from high school seek to attend.
Now, I realize that affirmative action has many issues and topics that have polarized this nation, but in working with some of the most brilliant minds in law, business, medicine and technology (in naming just a few professions), this nation can achieve its diversity in education, without the sacrifice of the earned GPA by each undergraduate, in providing this nation with the problem solvers for the future.
Whether “between” the various races and cultures or ‘within’ each race and culture, a process can be developed in acknowledging students, without the human bias that is currently attached, for university admissions at any level. One just needs to know where to look, and in doing so, this nation will have the answers that it seeks.
Since the release of a small unknown book titled “’The Death of Affirmative Action’: The Proposed Model for the Candidate Selection Process into Law School”, the US Attorney Generals office, The Texas State Attorney General’s Office, The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and a member of the Texas House of Representatives have coordinated activities in understanding what the old folks had conceived and in doing so, assigned the proposal ‘case no. DJ 169-73-0’ in a letter received by the author dated April 5th, 2005.
What this nation will now come to learn and comprehend, that unless we begin to initiate the pain taking step called ‘Research’ necessary in finding solutions to these sensitive issues, we are no better off for the enormous investment that we call ‘Education’. And as stated within the author’s book, the intuitive skill set or the ‘argument phase’ of problem solving seldom solves any problem, but its presence demonstrates the need for research.
With a proposal now within the hands of our most trusted government organization, we have the opportunity to resolve university admissions at any level. It’s time to build the proposal that our nation said could not be built.
And should anyone be denied admissions into any law school or medical school, they now have the tools to challenge their denial. But this time, you will have the Department of Justice overseeing your every step.
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