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Reality of Zero-Sum Game of College Admissions Was Critical To Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling

Posted by Dr. Ryan M. Yonk on July 04, 2023 30 Comments

Despite attempts to cast racial preferences as merely a helping hand to minority applicants, those preferences ultimately mean that a proportional amount of non-minority individuals will be rejected based, in part, on their race....

Karma: Harvard Legacy/Donor Admissions Practices Are Racist According To Civil Rights Complaint Just Filed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 03, 2023 64 Comments

The colleges and universities that have been the most aggressive and belligerent in defending illegal race-based affirmative action are finding their most cherished and lucrative admissions practices challenged: Legacy and Donor preferences....

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Clarence Thomas Reading His Epic Takedown Of KBJ’s Affirmative Action Dissent Left Her “Visibly Angry”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2023 112 Comments

"JUSTICE JACKSON’s race-infused world view falls flat at each step...

SCOTUS “gave universities a narrow opening, and Harvard just announced it’s going to drive an affirmative action truck right through it”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2023 89 Comments

Today's decision was a major achievement, don't get me wrong. But the battle is just getting started to enforce this victory for equal protection....

‘Tyranny of a Minority’: The Left Freaks Out After Affirmative Action Ruled Unconstitutional

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 29, 2023 133 Comments

The NYT: "The major ruling curtails race-conscious college admissions in the U.S., all but ensuring that elite institutions become whiter and more Asian and less Black and Latino."...

Supreme Court: Harvard and UNC Affirmative Action “invalidated under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2023 91 Comments

Chief Justice Roberts for the 6-3 majority: "The race-based admissions systems that respondents employ also fail to comply with the twin commands of the Equal Protection Clause that race may never be used as a “negative” and that it may not operate as a stereotype"...

Harvard Expert on Dishonesty is Accused of Dishonesty

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 25, 2023 4 Comments

"The allegations, first reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education, have unsettled US behavioural scientists."...

Harvard Medical School Morgue Manager and Wife Charged With Stealing and Selling Human Body Parts

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 15, 2023 11 Comments

“We are appalled to learn that something so disturbing could happen on our campus — a community dedicated to healing and serving others”...

Ousted Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Will Teach at Harvard

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 02, 2023 6 Comments

"will serve as the Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at the school beginning at the end of August"...

Harvard Chemistry Prof Who Lied About Ties to China Gets Two Days in Prison

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 28, 2023 7 Comments

"Harvard also allowed him to retire quietly."...

Harvard LGBTQ Group Demands More Gender-Neutral Bathrooms on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 17, 2023 6 Comments

"The group asks for two monthly stakeholder meetings to discuss the project’s progress, wanting it done by the end of the 2023 fall semester."...

Activists at Harvard Stage Die-in to Protest School’s Connection to Opioid Company

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 12, 2023 4 Comments

"The protesters called on the Ivy League school to remove the drug company owner’s name from all university buildings"...

Harvard Profs Form Alliance to Defend Academic Freedom and Free Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 28, 2023 2 Comments

"When activists are shouting into an administrator’s ear, we will speak calmly but vigorously into the other one, which will require them to take the reasoned rather than the easy way out"...

Former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern Receives Harvard Fellowship

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 27, 2023 32 Comments

Ardern, who called online free speech a "weapon of war," will be lecturing on "leadership, governance and online extremism" at Harvard. ...

Student Activists at Harvard Want School’s ‘Winthrop House’ to be Renamed

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 09, 2023 7 Comments

"student protesters argue that because they supported slavery their name should be wiped from campus"...

Hide the Ball: Columbia U Becomes First Ivy League School To Permanently Eliminate Required Standardized Admissions Testing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 05, 2023 24 Comments

As affirmative action likely comes to an end later this SCOTUS term, higher ed will not give up its obsession with racial preferences, it'll just eliminate the key type of evidence relied upon by the Asian students in the Harvard case: Standardized test scores....

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