Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:39 PM
Right-Mind
University of Idaho: "Sometimes you see the same black kid in every picture"
Does anyone recall UI getting caught doing this back in Sept 2000?
From World Net Daily:
Colleges caught stacking publicity photos with minorities
'Sometimes you see the same black kid in every picture'
A new report from the online magazine Inside Higher Ed reveals that a researcher has caught universities loading their publicity photographs with black students.
"Sometimes you see the same black kid in every picture," said George Dehne, who runs an admissions consulting firm and was quoted in the online report.
"We tell colleges that it's a mistake and they shouldn't do it, but we get overruled," he said.
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The report noted that universities should have learned about such strategies already.
"In September of 2000, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Idaho were both embarrassed when they were forced to admit that they had doctored promotional photographs to make their campuses look diverse," the report said. "In both cases, non-white faces were added to real student photographs of all-white groups."
"At the universities involved, officials insisted that they meant well, but just about everyone agreed that Photoshop diversity isn't the real thing," the report said.
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