An encouraging number of colleges and professional schools have deleted discriminatory questions from their application blanks as a result of a remedial drive conducted by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, it was reported here today by Benjamin R. Epstein, A.D.L. national director.
Mr. Epstein said that following conferences with A. D. L. officials in various sections of the country, 135 colleges in 21 states have voluntarily removed questions pertaining to religion, color and national origin from their admission forms. Need for such action was indicated in an A. D. L. study last year which showed that 92.27 per cent of the 518 schools and colleges surveyed asked at least one potentially discriminatory question.
“The A. D. L., through its 28 regional offices, initiated a remedial campaign.” Mr. Epstein reported. “Cooperation was sought on a voluntary basis and approximately one-third of the colleges originally surveyed have removed all or most of the objectionable questions from their application forms. Other schools have indicated that they will follow suit when present stocks of application blanks are exhausted.”
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