Tag: Affirmative action
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Nation & World
About 100 rally to voice opposition to Supreme Court admissions case ruling
College and Summer School students, alumni, and parents gather in support of campus diversity across nation.
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Nation & World
Michigan, California speak from experience in briefs supporting Harvard
Schools have struggled to maintain campus diversity since bans on race-conscious admissions, say officials in briefs supporting Harvard.
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Nation & World
Unfinished business
Education has been a force for racial progress in the U.S., but we still have a long way to go.
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Nation & World
Harvard students head for Supreme Court rally
They will join groups from other schools, activists, lawyers in support of campus diversity as justices hear admissions challenge.
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Nation & World
Students call ensuring diversity on campus vital
Reaction follows Supreme Court decision to rule on University’s policy of considering race as one factor among many in admissions.
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Nation & World
Judge upholds Harvard’s admissions policy
Federal Judge Allison D. Burroughs found in favor of Harvard in a ruling that upheld its practice of considering race as one among many factors when reviewing applications to the College.
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Nation & World
‘Stunning progress’
The public arena has made great strides toward diversity — as Harvard’s evolution has shown — but neighborhoods and schools need to catch up, according to sociologist Orlando Patterson, who said he arrived on an overwhelmingly white campus in 1970.
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Nation & World
It’s the who, not the what
The U.S. Supreme Court’s affirmation of Michigan’s ban on using affirmative action in college admissions focused on what voters can do, rather than on the outcome of their actions, says Dean James Ryan of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Nation & World
Affirmative action policies remain
The U.S. Supreme Court returned the question of affirmative action in college admissions to the lower courts for reconsideration.
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Nation & World
An issue that’s bigger in Texas
During an Askwith Forum discussion on college affirmative action, highlighted by the pending Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas, the speakers said that any decision should include as its backdrop a sense of that Southern state’s history.
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Nation & World
Taking a stand on diversity
After the Supreme Court announced it will hear a major case on affirmative action in October, Harvard joined 13 other universities to file a friend-of-the-court brief supporting considerations of race in college admissions.