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Affirmative Action Doesn't Work, and MIT Knows It | City Journal

Affirmative Action Doesn't Work, and MIT Knows It. University officials have acknowledged that racial disparities in academic preparation begin at the K–12 ...

The Changing Meaning of Affirmative Action | The New Yorker

“Affirmative” means: demonstrate that you did your best to find and promote members of underrepresented groups. You do not have to give them preferential ...

Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action programs in college ...

By a vote of 6-3, the justices ruled that the admissions programs used by the University of North Carolina and Harvard College violate the ...

Why the Supreme Court Endorsed, Then Limited Affirmative Action

The Supreme Court has rejected the consideration of race as a factor in colleges' efforts to create a diverse student body. For decades, the court upheld race- ...

A History of Affirmative Action in College Admissions

Affirmative action policy has shaped U.S. higher education as we know it. In the late 1960s, admissions departments around the country began ...

Demographics Included in Affirmative Action Analyses

Applicants are given the chance to voluntarily disclose their disability status, ethnicity, protected veteran status, sex, and race at the time of application ...

The Supreme Court's ban on affirmative action means colleges will ...

The Supreme Court has delivered a landmark ruling that effectively prohibits the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions.

Affirmative Action FAQs - Human Resource Services

Does affirmative action mean hiring a less-qualified individual just because that person may belong to a group that is under-represented? No. The goal is always ...

Affirmative Action - OHSU

These protected classes include, but are not limited to: age, disabilities, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, and veteran status.

Racial Diversity on Campus After Affirmative Action

Enrollment shifts have diminished overall degree attainment and wages for Black and Latinx students in some states with affirmative action bans.

The future of affirmative action: Experts explain the upcoming ...

Wrap-up. Given its conservative majority, the Supreme Court is widely expected to remove race-conscious admissions at higher education ...

What was affirmative action designed to do - The Guardian

What was affirmative action designed to do – and what has it achieved? ... The US supreme court banned the use of affirmative action policies in ...

Affirmative Action Under the Fourteenth Amendment - FindLaw

This article discusses the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and its relationship to affirmative action policies.

Princeton, Yale Asian students decline despite affirmative action ruling

Race-based affirmative action was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court last year — but Duke, Princeton, and Yale's share of Asian ...

The First Post-Affirmative Action Class Enters College - YouTube

The Supreme Court's decision to ban affirmative action last summer was expected to drastically change the demographics of college campuses ...

Affirmative Action Policies to Increase Diversity Are Successful, but ...

We found that 63% of the 194 studies we reviewed concluded that affirmative action programmes indeed served to improve outcomes for ethnic, ...

The Case for Affirmative Action

We spoke with Natasha Warikoo, an expert on the connection between college admissions and racial diversity, about what affirmative action has accomplished in ...

Affirmative Action - Center for American Progress

Advancing Racial Equity and Justice. We apply a racial equity lens in developing and advancing policies that aim to root out entrenched systemic racism to ...

Affirmative Action in Education Matters for Equity, Opportunity, and ...

Race-conscious admission policies address barriers and promote diversity and equity in higher education by considering race as one of many factors in a ...

Affirmative Action - U-M Public Affairs - University of Michigan

The University of Michigan remains steadfast in its commitment to fostering a diverse educational environment for our students and scholars.