affirmative action
18 pieces tagged “affirmative action”, newest first.
Affirmative Action Ban: The Numbers Are In
Racial demographics in college admissions are beginning to tell a different story.
A Tale of Two Universities
One will follow the SCOTUS ruling on affirmative action; the other will attempt to implement an end run.
In Brief: Affirmative Action’s Demise and Higher Education
Fruits of a credibility collapse.
Good News and Bad From Harvard and UNC
While Harvard takes a step in the direction of academic freedom, the University of North Carolina uses the same principle to take an anti-American step backward.
Are Affirmative Action’s Days Numbered?
In June, the Supreme Court will rule on our nation’s unconstitutional practice of race-based discrimination in higher-ed admissions.
The End of Racial Discrimination?
A conservative Supreme Court hears opening arguments today on a pair of high-profile cases involving racial discrimination in college admissions.
The AP Defends Racism in Medicine
By attacking Republicans while downplaying the practice of race-based medicine, the AP shows its true colors.
Reverse Racism Is Still Racism
Another Ivy League school is in legal trouble for race-based discrimination.
‘Mismatched’ Black Students Pay the Price of Affirmative Action
Affirmative action is once again before the Supreme Court. The case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, arose from the usual scenario: A white student applied to the university but was denied admission, while black applicants with weaker academic credentials were admitted because of racial preferences designed to favor minorities. It’s no mystery why Abigail Fisher, the rejected student in this case, would object to that racial double standard and take her protest all the way to the Supreme Court. What’s less clear is why the University of Texas embraces such a double standard.
Attacking the Truth: Part II
The case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, involving racial double standards in admissions to the University of Texas at Austin, has an Alice-in-Wonderland quality that has been all too common in other Supreme Court cases involving affirmative action in academia, going all the way back to 1978. Plain hard facts dissolve into rhetorical mysticism in these cases, where evasions of reality have been the norm.
Attacking the Truth
Among the many sad signs of our time are the current political and media attacks on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for speaking the plain truth on a subject where lies have been the norm for years. The case before the High Court is whether the use of race as a basis for admitting students to the University of Texas at Austin is a violation of the 14th Amendment’s requirement for government institutions to provide “equal protection of the laws” to all.
Festival of Smugness
There are few more repugnant spectacles among the liberal elites of this country than the festival of smugness that follows any comment by a conservative public figure that can be twisted into a racial slight. This week it is Justice Antonin Scalia’s turn. In an oral argument over affirmative action, Scalia said: “There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to — to get them in the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less advanced school, a less — a slower track school where they do well.”