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Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Conscious Admissions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court struck down race consciousness in college admissions on Thursday, upending four decades of precedent. Secondly, Roberts wrote, college admissions is a zero-sum game, and the racial admissions systems inevitably use race as a negative characteristic and require racial stereotyping. In a pair of votes, the U.S.

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Lending a Helping Hand

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Per the advice of a mentor, he picked being travel coordinator over academic adviser at GSU to get a better understanding of budgets and money and to have more doors in the sports world open to him. I don’t ever want to be hired because of my race,” White says. “I

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A Fight Against Misinformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She is the project director of Critical Race Theory (CRT) Forward, a database that, she says, identifies, tracks, and analyzes governmental actions or legislation “that aim to restrict access to truthful information about race.” Alexander is a lecturer of law at the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law.

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Stop Cooling Out the Next Generation’s Aspirations

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It is therefore time to connect the dots among efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities, overturn race-conscious admissions, and bring back standardized tests. These issues are not just about race. Apart from directly considering race, there remains much we can do to increase diversity.

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Panelists Discuss What a Post-Affirmative Action America Would Look Like

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As the world awaits the U.S. If minoritized groups don’t have good access to quality education, “the idea that we’re promoting throughout the world that we’re a shining, multi-racial democracy is a farce,” said Stewart Kwoh, co-founder and co-executive director of the Asian American Education Project.

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A Race Scholar

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Forty-one years had passed since Howard graduated from the school, but his formative years as a student there radically transformed his life and set him on the path to becoming the world class scholar that he is today. I would not change it for the world,” says Howard. I’m a race guy,” says Howard. “I The two go hand in hand.”

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Report Suggests Reforms if Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action

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Although the exact scope of the decision can’t be known, it seems clear that the court’s conservative majority will strike down the consideration of race in admissions. Although the court’s ruling upheld affirmative action, it changed its permissible motivation: no longer could schools consider race to achieve social justice purposes.