The rationale for university fee deregulation really doesn't go beyond the economic self-interest of the wealthiest institutions, or the pet ideological projects of a government more committed to an echo-chamber of neoliberal nuttery than a decent education at an affordable price.
"It's counter to the entire purpose and rationale of a university," said David Rosner, a professor of public health and history at Columbia University.
If the diversity rationale falls apart in university admissions, it could start to test the societal commitment to it in other arenas, notably private hiring and promotion.
The rationale, given by Brandeis, was the university's dire financial straits: a 25percentt decline in its endowment, a $10 million deficit on this year's budget and the reality that fund-raising will falter because of the market's skid.
At the same time, the university must define the scholarly rationale for the program and assure faculty enthusiasm and participation.
This explains why his study of cheating behaviour and rationales relies on interviews with 120 male university students aged 18-22, but focusing on American soccer stars.
The design of such support was partly based on previous work in which personalized e-mail messages provided a rationale for the relevance of archaeology content to university students in an archaeology course (C. Kim & Keller, 2008).
For some public universities, Harvard's move provided a rationale to argue for more state assistance to hold the line on student costs.
When it comes to putting forward a rationale for affirmative action programs, government agencies, including universities, are limited by legal restrictions.
Now its rationale, supported not only by America's top universities, but also most of its large companies and even its military, is the pursuit of "diversity".
