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Talk:University of Wisconsin-Madison (view source)
Revision as of 23:42, April 26, 2007
, 23:42, April 26, 2007→From Aschlafly's talk page
What began as a reply to your question about why I was "deleting facts" has become a discussion that more properly belongs at [[Talk:University of Wisconsin-Madison]]. I have a further comment on comparative diversity of colleges which I'm going to make there... and if you have no objection, I'm going to cut this section out of your Talk page and paste it into [[Talk:University of Wisconsin-Madison]]. Is that OK? [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 12:45, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
What began as a reply to your question about why I was "deleting facts" has become a discussion that more properly belongs at [[Talk:University of Wisconsin-Madison]]. I have a further comment on comparative diversity of colleges which I'm going to make there... and if you have no objection, I'm going to cut this section out of your Talk page and paste it into [[Talk:University of Wisconsin-Madison]]. Is that OK? [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 12:45, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
==U. S News' "Campus Ethnic Diversity"==
U. S. News and World Report, it turns out, calculates a [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc_ecodiv_brief.php campus diversity index] using [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/about/diversity_brief.php a methodology] which, they say, "factors in the total proportion of minority students—leaving out international students—and the overall mix of groups." The diversity index ranges from 0 (least diverse) to 1 (most diverse). (They don't give rank numbers, but I copied their table into a spreadsheet and did some slicing and dicing).
*In the entire list of 242, UW-Madison ranks #193 (20th percentile).
*If we consider only 158 public universities listed, UW-Madison ranks #90 (43rd percentile).
*Among the Big Ten, which are broadly similar schools from the same region of the country, we find:
::Northwestern University (IL) 0.47
::U. of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign * 0.44
::University of Michigan–Ann Arbor * 0.43
::Michigan State University * 0.31
::Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities * 0.3
::Ohio State University–Columbus * 0.28
::Pennsylvania State U.–University Park * 0.24
::Purdue Univ.–West Lafayette (IN)* 0.24
::Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison * 0.22
::Indiana University–Bloomington * 0.2
::University of Iowa * 0.17
::AVERAGE 0.30
*The schools of the Ivy League range from 0.46 (Cornell) to 0.56 (Harvard), average 0.50.
*The highest scores in the entire list is Rutgers-Newark (0.73); (Rutgers-New Brunswick scores 0.58).
*The forty-nine schools below UW-Madison are not just lower in rank order, they are significantly lower in diversity index, and many of them seem to qualify as "major schools;" for example, University of Rhode Island (0.2), Clemson (0.18), Brigham Young University (0.17), UNH (0.12), University of Maine at Orono (0.1), University of Vermont (0.1).
The conclusion I draw is that University of Wisconsin-Madison does seem to me to be "low" in diversity, but to say it has "one of the smallest minority enrollments among major schools" is an exaggeration.
I expect others will draw different conclusions... [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 19:42, 26 April 2007 (EDT)