Do elite universities discriminate against vets? After more than a decade of war, the number of veterans at our nation’s selective schools is falling.
Wick Sloane writes for Slate about the dearth of U.S. military veterans at our nation’s top universities.
If you can believe it, the number of undergraduate veterans at the nation’s self-proclaimed most highly selective colleges is significantly fewer than we reported in 2011. The total this year: 168*. The * is because, again, too many of these colleges, the 31 invitation-only members of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE), don’t know. The number may bounce again.
“Disgraceful and absurd” is what I called the 232 total veterans in 2011. By comparison, the total number of veterans and dependents of veterans using the Post-9/11 GI Bill rose from 555,329 students in 2011 to 646,302 in 2012. From 232 to 174 to 168—with the nation at war and 118,784 total undergraduate seats at the 31 COFHE colleges…
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Our elite universities say they pride themselves on diversity. They say it’s important to reach out to underrepresented groups with recruitment and special assistance. But why is it that U.S. military veterans don’t fall within their definition of desirable “diversity?”
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