Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions, and Biden 'strongly' disagrees
Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions, and Biden 'strongly' disagrees
A divided Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
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What exactly is the plan for righting historical injustices? Well I guess we elected Obama.
Crackers whining about the 100m race being unfair when they get to start at 90 and black people aren’t even on the track
Its asian people too, im disgusted by the rich chinese i know celebrating this. God forbid your kid goes to a non elite school scumbags
Some are undoubtedly wrong on this but Asian Americans face discrimination of their own
I dont give a fuck about you if youre rich regardless of race.
I don't understand why they don't switch to zip code instead? Would basically be admissions gerrymandering at that point and we all know how that's allowed lol
As I understand it, the University of California system (where AA was abolished via a statewide vote in 2020) has basically switched to using economic background.
and its been awful https://edsource.org/2020/dropping-affirmative-action-had-huge-impact-on-californias-public-universities/642437 especially for latinos
Yeah. The main issue being that poverty and race, while correlated, aren't perfect reflections of each other.
Add on top of that the UC system's funding woes and increased focus on out-of-state (and international) students to fill funding gaps and there you go.