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Recently, the US Supreme Court rejected race-based affirmative action at US colleges and universities. It said that such action “lacks sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting ...
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Affirmative action is racist, and therefore wrong. I once tried to make that point by holding a racist bake sale. I called it an "affirmative action bake sale." I sold cupcakes at a mall.
Myths about affirmative action being discriminatory against Asian Americans helped spread a narrative that college admissions meant to increase diversity were actually racist.
People often associate affirmative action with efforts to end discrimination for people of color. But scholars say the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action policies are white women, from ...
Ono said affirmative action provides the most immediate impact on diverse student enrollment. “I just think about the number of students who could have gone to Michigan between 2006 and today ...
Opponents, supporters of affirmative action face off 09:30. Edward Blum, of Tallahassee, Fla., is not a lawyer; he retired from a job in finance. But he is founder and president of Students for ...
While many Americans perceive affirmative action negatively, there are three common misunderstandings that people need to understand for these perceptions to shift.
Though the footnote fails to acknowledge it, military academies have been prominent in affirmative action jurisprudence, most notably in the Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling in Grutter vs. Bollinger.
Public attitudes about affirmative action depend on how Americans are asked about it. Americans who had heard the phrase affirmative action in the Center’s December survey were asked whether they saw ...