Who comes up with these dumb studies? Even better is the “study” found minorities don’t feel welcome at an ultra-liberal campus…
Via EAG News:
URBANA, Ill. – A new study about “racial microaggressions” against minorities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus is a practice in self-pity and relies on suspect anecdotal evidence, according to one editorial.
The News-Gazette writer Jim Dey assailed the study in an editorial today that acknowledged racial issues on college campuses, but pointed out the fact that the research relied heavily on the perceptions of the victims and their interpretation of “non-actions, actions, words and imputed motives of others.”
The study is based on an online campus survey of minority students at the University of Illinois Urbana during the 2011-12 school year, which garnered over 4,500 responses regarding “racial microagressions.”
“Thirty-nine percent (39%) of the students of color who responded to the survey reported feeling uncomfortable on campus because of their race. The most frequently cited uncomfortable locations for students of color were ‘fraternity and sorority certified housing,’ ‘Green Street,’ ‘on the bus’ and ‘classrooms and labs,’” according to the research.
“Over half of participants (51 percent) reported experiences of stereotyping in the classroom. About a third (27 percent) of the students of color reported feeling that their contributions in different learning contexts were minimized and that they were made to feel inferior because of the way they spoke. Additionally, a quarter (25 percent) of students of color reported feeling that they were not taken seriously in class because of their race.”
But Dey questioned some of the seemingly innocent comments that students in the survey took offense to under certain circumstances:
“Your English is excellent.”
“The major you’ve chosen is extremely difficult.”