affirmative action

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/15/2023
  

  Affirmative Action Cases May Force Colleges to Rethink Everything

  Some experts warn of a possible lost generation of college students from underrepresented backgrounds if race-conscious admissions are prohibited. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  12/12/2022
  

  Defenders of Affirmative Action at Harvard Need to Confront Anti-Asian Biases

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  It's clear that Harvard's criteria for rating prospective students connect with cultural traits and stereotypes in ways that disadvantage Asian American applicants. But keeping affirmative action and fixing these issues aren't mutually exclusive.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/2/2022
  

  The Blindness of the Supreme Court's "Colorblindness"

  by Drew Gilpin Faust

  "Affirmative action opened a door I would walk through.... My professors, soon to be my colleagues, could imagine me among them because the very notion of women faculty had been given a legitimacy and a thinkability."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/29/2022
  

  Can Universities Protect Diverse Admissions and Excellence?

  by John Thelin

  The vastly improved technology available to college admissions officers means that a handful of selective institutions can serve the interest of both nominal diversity and elite reproduction, while exacerbating the divide in elementary and secondary educational quality in the nation. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  11/21/2022
  

  Ties Documented Between Legal Activist Challenging Affirmative Action and White Nationalists

  by Jean Guerrero

  Both the activists behind two Supreme Court cases challenging affirmative action and the funding network that supports them have close ties to overt white nationalists and anti-immigration leaders, suggesting that the lawsuits are less about fairness for all than about advantage for whites. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  11/3/2022
  

  Some Asian American Activists Helped Build Affirmative Action; Today Some are Working to Dismantle It

  by Ellen Wu

  The midcentury rise of fascism and struggles for Black civil rights gave some Japanese American activists an opening to argue for principles of proportionality in ethnic representation in politics, education, employment, and other areas, key support for the group of policies that became affirmative action. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/4/2022
  

  The Sad Death of Affirmative Action

  by Jay Caspian Kang

  New Yorker writer Jay Caspian Kang argues that while the benefit of "diversity" is largely uncontested, the brand of diversity that Harvard and other elite institutions want to ensure is circumscribed by the bounds of economic elitism, a far cry from the high moral purposes originally claimed for affirmative action. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  11/1/2022
  

  Sociologist: Yes, Harvard Discriminated Against Jews. No, It's Not an Apt Metaphor for Affirmative Action

  by Jerome Karabel

  Despite the enthusiasm of the plaintiffs and the conservative justices for the comparison, Harvard's treatment of Asian American applicants today doesn't match its treatment of Jewish students in the 1920s. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/31/2022
  

  History Makes the Best Argument to Keep Affirmative Action

  by Glenn C. Altschuler and David Wippman

  "The Supreme Court’s continued focus on educational benefits as the legal justification for affirmative action has led the policy’s supporters to play down what may well be a more compelling argument: the need to overcome past and continuing discrimination."

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• SOURCE: Vox
  10/30/2022
  

  Inside the Affirmative Action Cases Before SCOTUS

  Edward Blum is a longtime conservative legal activist who is leading lawsuits claiming that affirmative action in admissions violates the requirement that the constituiton be color-blind; whether there is any such principle is debatable. Includes insights from historians Hugh Davis Graham and Eddie R. Cole. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/31/2022
  

  A Roundup of Affirmative Action Takes as SCOTUS Hears Arguments in Harvard, UNC Cases

  From left, right and center, and from pundits and legal scholars, a roundup of analysis on the oral arguments in Supreme Court cases that could eliminate race-conscious admissions policies. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/31/2022
  

  Defendant in Michigan Admissions Case: Ending Affirmative Action Would be Disastrous

  by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone

  The former President of the University of Michigan says that diversity in higher education remains a compelling reason to allow race as one factor in college admissions. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/28/2022
  

  SCOTUS Affirmative Action Cases Hinge on History of Brown and the 14th Amendment

  by Linda Greenhouse

  Neither Brown nor the 14th Amendment were driven by a belief in a "colorblind" Constitution; instead, they were rooted in the historically specific context of racial oppression. The plaintiffs in two cases before the court want to obscure that history, says veteran court reporter Linda Greenhouse.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/4/2022
  

  Corporate America Copied the NFL's "Rooney Rule"—But Also its Lack of Enforcement

  The NFL teams' agreement to interview minority candidates for coaching jobs always had a fault: nothing happened to teams who abused the process and interviewed candidates with no intention of hiring them. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/2/2022
  

  Legal Scholar: "Diversity" a Weak Substitute for Justice, Opened Door to SCOTUS Killing Affirmative Action

  by Richard Thompson Ford

  The cause of equality was dealt a fatal blow when courts and colleges shifted the focus of affirmative action from fighting racism to promoting diversity, argues legal scholar Richard Thompson Ford. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  3/23/2022
  

  A Pledge to Recuse by KBJ Likely Means the End of Affirmative Action

  by Keisha N. Blain

  With a challenge to Harvard's affirmative action looming, Judge Jackson's pledge to recuse herself means that the Supreme Court is more likely to rule that affirmative action in private university admissions is unconstitutional, with the likely consequence of increasing racial inequality. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  1/28/2022
  

  SCOTUS Could Kill off Affirmative Action with Devastating Results

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Affirmative action policies have always aimed at changing the nation's long history of racially unequal education; that's why they've faced militant opposition all along, and why a conservative Supreme Court wants to destroy them. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/24/2022
  

  Will SCOTUS Take the Opportunity to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions?

  A veteran higher education lawyer says that dire predictions that the Supreme Court will ban race-based affirmative action in admissions; narrowly-tailored diversity initiatives may survive despite the court's broad conservative majority. 

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• 12/19/2021
  

  It's Time to Confront Special Privilege in Admission to Elite U.S. Colleges

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Merit-based admission at the nation’s most elite colleges is severely undermined by those colleges' preferential treatment of the children of the 1%. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/26/2021
  

  Can Affirmative Action Survive the Supreme Court?

  by Nicholas Lemann

  The moderate Republican appointee has always served as the Justice to protect modest versions of affirmative action. What will happen in a pending case now that such Justices are gone from the court? The historical trajectory of supposedly meritocratic admissions offers clues.