Texas 'free speech' university's admissions process shuns the DEI blueprint: 'Interested in the mind'
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CBS News' "60 Minutes" looked into the MEI (merit, excellence and intelligence) approach to admissions at the University of Austin, whose leaders insist it offers diversity of thought.
"We don't take any of that into consideration in admissions," Pano Kanelos, president of the university, told CBS News of race, ethnicity and gender. "The primary thing that we're interested in is the mind." Taylor Penley is an associate editor with Fox News.
Merit, excellence and intelligence (MEI) centers on qualifications and abilities, particularly emphasizing the "capacity to think deeply," according to Kanelos.
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