No. of Recommendations: 4
Given the stated goal of:
No university or agency in the A&M system will admit any student, nor hire any employee based on any factor other than merit
Will the state implement a program to measure compliance with this objective? If not, why not? ( I suspect they would not like the result)
What would be the consequence for noncompliant organizations?
Of course there is also the confounding factor of how you measure "merit". For example, does a student who receives thousands of dollars worth of coaching on the board exams have more merit than a student who scores slightly lower, but gets no assistance? How do you measure and calculate in these factors?
While this is a noble goal, it is just policy and words whipping up the base at the expense of discriminated against groups.
Alan
