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Diallo Shabazz was a student at the University of Wisconsin in 2000 when he stopped by the admissions office.
"One of the admissions counselors walked up to me, and said, 'Diallo, did you see yourself in the admissions booklet? Actually, you're on the cover this year,' " Shabazz says.
The photo was a shot of students at a football game but Shabazz had never been to a football game.
"So I flipped back, and that's when I saw my head cut off and kind of pasted onto the front cover of the admissions booklet," he says.
This Photoshopped image and became a classic example of how colleges miss the mark on diversity. Wisconsin stressed that it was just one person's bad choice, but Shabazz sees it as part of a bigger problem.
"The admissions department that we've been talking about, I believe, was on the fourth floor, and multicultural student center was on the second floor of that same building," he says. "So you didn't need to create false diversity in the picture all you really needed to do was go downstairs."
http://www.npr.org/2013/12/29/257765543/a-campus-more-colorful-than-reality-beware-that-college-brochure
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)exboyfil
(17,862 posts)The Board of Directors picture had our old President (European American). They photoshopped our new African American president onto his body. You could still see the previous President's hand.
Very funny.
catbyte
(34,375 posts)Multicultural Center sent out Christmas cards, lol. Now we have a VP of Inclusion & Equity & they have one of the strongest pro-LGBT institutional policies I've seen. We have a ways to go, though, in attracting more minority students, especially in my area, health professions, but we are making progress.