{"id":4721,"date":"2023-08-04T21:48:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T21:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4721"},"modified":"2023-08-04T22:18:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T22:18:16","slug":"uw-sees-dramatic-drop-in-non-underrepresented-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4721","title":{"rendered":"UW Sees Dramatic Drop in \u201cnon-underrepresented students\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/08\/04\/uw-sees-dramatic-drop-in-non-underrepresented-students\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uw-sees-dramatic-drop-in-non-underrepresented-students\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/08\/04\/uw-sees-dramatic-drop-in-non-underrepresented-students\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uw-sees-dramatic-drop-in-non-underrepresented-students<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/wi\/milwaukee\/news\/2023\/08\/03\/university-of-wisconsin-oshkosh-announces-layoffs--furloughs-to-shrink--18-million-deficit\">Well, that\u2019s an interesting stat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>UW System data indicates drastic enrollment drops by \u201cnon-underrepresented\u201d students. They\u2019re defined as students who are white, international students, or those with family heritage in Asian countries well-represented in the student body\u2014such as China, Korea, and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Enrollment by those students fell around 20%, from almost 160,000 in the fall of 2010 to just under 130,000 in the fall of 2022.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, let\u2019s see\u2026 over the last decade or more, the UW system has been actively biasing their enrollment criteria to favor underrepresented students while telling your average white or Asian Wisconsin kid that they are not welcome. UW administrators have carved out \u201csafe spaces\u201d for underrepresented students under the premise that they are needed because white and Asian kids as threats. Is it any wonder that when you spend years telling a group of people that they are terrible bigots because of the color of their skin that they might choose to go elsewhere for an education?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/08\/04\/uw-sees-dramatic-drop-in-non-underrepresented-students\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=uw-sees-dramatic-drop-in-non-underrepresented-students Well, that\u2019s an interesting stat. UW System data indicates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions\/4722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}