Showing posts with label affirmative action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label affirmative action. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Most Americans approve of DEI, according to Post-Ipsos poll - The Washington Post
Despite rising tensions over diversity, equity and inclusion programs, about 6 in 10 Americans said they are a "good thing" for companies to adopt...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Affirmative action: Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Virginia high school’s ‘race-neutral’ admissions policy | CNN Politics
The controversy arises from an admissions policy adopted by the highly selective Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in 2020 to increase diversity. The policy sought "to mitigate socioeconomic obstacles faced by students of all races" to ensure disadvantaged students were admitted to the school, whose student body was historically comprised of students from affluent areas...
Monday, September 4, 2023
Harvard's Drew Gilpin Faust says history should make us uncomfortable (Terry Gross; Fresh Air podcast)
..."And I suddenly recognized that my school was all white, not by accident, but by law and by explicit decisions," Faust says. "I realized what it meant to be white, and I saw much more clearly the foundation of the inequities that surrounded me."
Faust points to that moment as her "first awakening to the possibility of activism." She wrote a letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower to urge that schools be integrated, and later, as an adult, found that letter in the Eisenhower library.
"I am proud of that letter," she says. "In some ways, I feel that I need to continually try to live up to that idealistic little girl. ... I can continue to see that as an inspiration and a model and continue to bear out what she represented."
Interview:
Faust points to that moment as her "first awakening to the possibility of activism." She wrote a letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower to urge that schools be integrated, and later, as an adult, found that letter in the Eisenhower library.
"I am proud of that letter," she says. "In some ways, I feel that I need to continually try to live up to that idealistic little girl. ... I can continue to see that as an inspiration and a model and continue to bear out what she represented."
Interview:
Sunday, August 20, 2023
‘America First 2.0’: Vivek Ramaswamy pitches to be Republicans’ next Trump
Like barroom bores across the country, he thinks the US has lost its "civic pride, civic identity, civic duty". He has said affirmative action – the effort designed to ensure colleges and businesses offer equal opportunities to people of color, and people of all genders and sexual orientation – is "a cancer on our national soul". His opposition to affirmative action, however, invariably lands on policies which may benefit Black or Latino Americans.
"Top companies now regularly disfavor qualified applicants who happen to be white or Asian," he tweeted in June. "Time to restore colorblind meritocracy once and for all."
Ramaswamy did not provide any evidence for his claim and did not respond to a question on the topic from the Guardian. Last year, a reportby the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that "one of the most durable and defining features of the US labor market is the 2-to-1 disparity in unemployment that exists between black and white workers"...
Diverse teams can improve engineering outcomes − but recent affirmative action decision may hinder efforts to create diverse teams
Diversity in human judgment, empathy and creativity is good for business, but it also benefits the common good. Creating opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds and experiences prepares all students – regardless of race or gender – for success in an increasingly diverse nation...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
After affirmative action case, guidance explains how colleges can address race - The Washington Post
A Biden administration memorandum responds to the Supreme Court's rejection of race-based affirmative action…
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Opinion | The New Beneficiaries of Affirmative Action Are White Men - POLITICO
It is hard to avoid the upside-down nature of a decision that ends up privileging the very group that has historically been most advantaged. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson condemned the "perverse" nature of the SFFA decision, which reads a part of the Constitution aimed at correcting racial injustice as barring a policy that does just that. A recent challenge to Harvard's legacy admissions policy is also premised on the backwards aspect of a decision that bans express accounting of race while permitting consideration of far less worthy traits…
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Support for legacy admissions is rooted in racial hierarchy
"Just as was found in previous research, I found that people who wanted to maintain social dominance for white people were largely the same people who supported legacy admissions. They also largely opposed affirmative action.…"
Monday, July 17, 2023
Support for legacy admissions is rooted in racial hierarchy
"Just as was found in previous research, I found that people who wanted to maintain social dominance for white people were largely the same people who supported legacy admissions. They also largely opposed affirmative action.…"
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Monday, July 10, 2023
How Supreme Court decisions are activating a generation of young voters - The Washington Post
For many voters under 35 years of age, especially those on the left, the Supreme Court has become a political issue in the same way that climate change, gun violence and immigration have over the course of the past two decades, some political scientists and organizers have said.
Conversations with more than a dozen young voters from around the country who recently visited Washington for the Fourth of July suggest a sense of frustration, even resignation for some, but also a renewed understanding that their votes could impact which justices sit on the federal bench...
Saturday, July 8, 2023
The Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Decision Is the Latest Effort to Erase Racism from Cultural Consciousness - Scientific American
Liliana Garces of the University of Texas at Austin and her colleagues have found that legal pressures faced by educational can drive administrators to make less inclusive decisions for fear of reprisal and lawsuits when confronted with hate speech. That is why the Supreme Court's actions are yet another square in the tapestry upholding white supremacy—making it so onerous for colleges to thread legal and legislative decisions that administrators overreact.
Along those lines, there's already a new case being argued that focuses on a magnet high school from my home state, Virginia. The Fairfax County School Board was sued because of "race-neutral" changes in the school's admissions policies (e.g., swapping an exam for essays and providing a preferential weight for students who are experiencing poverty). The plaintiffs argued the changes created an undue burden for students of Asian descent because they added weight to so-called proxies for race. Even though the appellate court ruled in favor of the school, it is widely expected that this case will be appealed to the Supreme Court, where even "race-neutral" admissions practices aimed at diversifying the student body may be curtailed.
This gives away the game: the goal is not now, nor has it ever been, to solely focus on so-called race-neutral measures. It has been to dismantle any tools that can be used to advance racial justice in the U.S. —to neutralize any discussion of racism, the wages of whiteness and their joint effect on society...
Friday, July 7, 2023
The Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Decision Harms Science, Education and Health - Scientific American
Success is not a finite resource. Society does better, generation after generation, when we extend educational opportunities to people who historically haven't gotten them. White students benefit educationally from diversity. Black people live longer when they have Black doctors. In study after study, more diversity makes for better work. More innovation happens. More people make money to support the economy. And accomplishments are more meaningful when we lift others up, instead of pulling the ladder up...
Thursday, July 6, 2023
Sunday, July 2, 2023
Saturday, July 1, 2023
The Supreme Court didn’t end affirmative action for white people - Vox
The Supreme Court's decision to effectively ban the consideration of race in college admissions reversed more than 40 years of precedent. It also left other kinds of admission preferences in place — ones that often benefit white students...
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Turns ‘Equal Protection’ Upside Down - The New York Times
But diversity — whether on campus, in business, or in government and society at large — remains a vital goal for any institution, and it will now be more difficult to achieve. The word is not a "trendy slogan," as Justice Jackson wrote in her dissent. Diversifying medical schools by opening up the profession to Black physicians can save lives, she notes. Black infants, for example, are more likely to survive under the care of a Black doctor. Diversity also expands economic benefits and social understanding. A diverse student body, she wrote, means that "students of every race will come to have a greater appreciation and understanding of civic virtue, democratic values, and our country's commitment to equality." …
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