Leslie Maxwell writes a short and solid blog entry (and maybe a story later this week) about the politics of college admissions at San Diego State University. Specifically, SDSU’s move to eliminate a preferential admissions policy for high school students from San Diego has sparked a debate about perceived obligations to serve the local community. I am of multiple minds here about the consequences of excluding potential students who are unlikely to move to go to college outside their home county, but I don’t know if the potential SDSU students outside the county are more or less advantaged on the whole, and what would happen with college completion.
On the other hand, I think see where the dynamics are heading… towards setting up one of the local districts (Sweetwater Union’s school district) as a model because of its existing compact with SDSU. I recall Peter Sacks reporting on a certain high school teacher in Oceanside, and I’m curious how he’d see this. Calling Peter Sacks…