1964 Civil Right Aact Title VI of that law contains terms as powerful as they are easy to understand: “No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under an ...
https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/rethinking-admissions-now-that-affirmative-action-is-banned/article_10e7f468-175d-11ee-bf09-97e36aa8a292.html?utm_medium=socialutm_source=twitter_sfexaminerfbclid=IwAR3lm_brf-gnr7DwDs1U5EXxGkWdPK286iTyiky1JgfIhzcMCR4el0LsTGw Roberts criticized the Harvard pla ...
https://dailytrojan.com/opinion/2022/03/22/the-unjust-legacy-of-legacy-admissions/ About one hundred years ago, three elite universities — Harvard, Yale and Princeton — first put into place the practice of legacy admissions. Their actions were followed closely by several other pr ...
MERKLEY, BOWMAN INTRODUCE BILL TO END LEGACY ADMISSION PREFERENCES AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Wednesday, February 2, 2022 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16) today introduced the Fair College Admission ...
Senator Merkley (D-OR) and Rep Bowman (D-NY) plan to reintroduce the Fair College Admissions for Students Act which would ban legacy admissions https://www.merkley.senate.gov/news/press-releases/merkley-bowman-introduce-bill-to-end-legacy-admission-preferences-at-colleges-and-universities-22 ...
In oral arguments last October, several conservative justices had floated removing legacy preferences as a race-neutral alternative for Harvard’s admissions process. President Joe Biden also took aim at legacy admissions in a press conference following the decision, announcing that he ...