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Hello everyone, just opening up a discussion about NMSU admissions, especially graduate admissions. Surprisingly People have come up to me saying they were discriminated against due to their nationality, especially in the Health department. This is only true to certain nationalities especially from latin american countries. NMSU has a Hisotry of various racism claims against latinos (surprisingly) and african americans including one teacher in 2008 which the Las Cruces Sun news is very interested about.
Anybody else experiencing something similar?
I have found moving to LC to be a liberating experience where diversity is concerned. My husband is a grad student at NMSU and we live on campus. Never, in our year of being here have we ever experienced any sort of racism - I am Hispanic and my husband is white,fwiw. New Mexicans are some of the more pleasant and friendly people we have met in our many travels.
Oh, but if this person is complaining because something is not getting done to their satisfaction -that's not racism, that's just how the university seems to work.
The ONLY time I've ever heard anyone complain about admissions policies being discriminatory, it has been about "reverse discrimination." That usually happens where there are only a limited number of slots for entering graduate students each semester and the school is trying to fulfill a racially mixed quota. Even if there is no quota, graduate program acceptance is highly competitive.
Actually, the competition begins at the freshman entry level in many schools, where applicants must meet some minimum academic standard.
I REALLY doubt it. It's actually been the other way around for me (In LC not NMSU) there's such a huge population of Hispanic people here I rarely hear English being spoken whenever I go out.
I REALLY doubt it. It's actually been the other way around for me (In LC not NMSU) there's such a huge population of Hispanic people here I rarely hear English being spoken whenever I go out.
Where do you go, Pinata stores?
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