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Talk:University of Wisconsin-Madison (view source)
Revision as of 15:55, April 27, 2007
, 15:55, April 27, 2007→"Top 10 Most Liberal Colleges"
[[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 20:17, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
[[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 20:17, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
: If you go to other items in the top 10 rankings on the encarta site you will find universities listed. If you switch over to most conservative colleges, Brigham Young University is #3 and University of Dallas is #8 and Texas A&M University-College Station as #9. Universities are not excluded. --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 20:31, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
: If you go to other items in the top 10 rankings on the encarta site you will find universities listed. If you switch over to most conservative colleges, Brigham Young University is #3 and University of Dallas is #8 and Texas A&M University-College Station as #9. Universities are not excluded. --[[User:Mtur|Mtur]] 20:31, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
==Changed "0.6% Asian" to "6% Asian"==
The paragraph read:
:It has one of the smallest minority enrollments among major schools, with only 2.7% of its enrollment being African American, only 3% Hispanic and only 0.6% being Asian American.
I changed the stated Asian-American percentage figure from 0.6% to 6%, because U. S. News and World Report's [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc_campdiv_brief.php table] shows Asian-American as the ''largest'' minority and gives the figure as 6%, and because Aschlafly's original text (first version of the article) reads
: It has one of the smallest minority enrollments among major schools, with only 11.5% of its student population being African American (2.7%), Asian American (5.2%), Native American (0.6%) or Hispanic (3%).
==Proposed change in "smallest minority enrollments" paragraph==
I propose to change this paragraph to read:
:Ethnic diversity at UW-Madison is among the lowest in the Big Ten<ref>In the Big Ten schools, the U. S. News' [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc_campdiv_brief.php Campus Ethnic Diversity Index] ranges from 0.47 (Northwestern) down to 0.17 (Iowa), with Wisconsin-Madison third from the bottom at 0.22</ref> only 5.2% Asian-American, 3% Hispanic, 2.7% African and 0.6% Native American.
and then footnote "lowest in the Big Ten" with the details:
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I'll preserves the location in the article that Aschafly thinks it deserves. I think comparison among the Big Ten seems fair since they are all broadly comparable institutions. I think "among the lowest in the Big Ten" is fair since it's in the bottom three, and its score of 0.22 isn't very far from Iowa's 0.17. I don't think the use of the word "only" is appropriate without any rationale for what the percentages ''should'' be, but I'll leave it.
I just don't think "has one of the smallest minority enrollments among major schools" is justified by the facts. "Among the lowest in the Big Ten" is as close as I can some to preserving Aschlafly's point without stretching the facts beyond the breaking point. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 11:55, 27 April 2007 (EDT)