Harvard’s End-Run Around Affirmative Action Could Backfire
"none of this has stopped Harvard and other elite schools from giving post-SFFA racial discrimination the old college try"...
"none of this has stopped Harvard and other elite schools from giving post-SFFA racial discrimination the old college try"...
What is happening here? First it was Oberlin College, now Harvard, where I'm rooting for insurance companies. First Circuit Court of Appeals finds Harvard failed to comply with claims notice requirement of insurance policy, and its main argument was "little more than gaslighting."...
"Did you know that grad students may qualify for assistance paying for food & groceries?"...
"Harvard Business School would not discuss the lawsuit Wednesday. The named defendants could not be immediately reached for comment."...
“I don’t understand why there was no cameras, why people weren’t seeing this.”...
“Hey, President Gay! We need ethnic studies today!”...
My appearance on the Rich Valdés America at Night! show, talking about LinkedIn practices exposed by the Equal Protection Project, and how discrimination will go even more high tech after the Supreme Court's Affirmative Action ruling: "They'll plug it into their algorithms, they'll plug it...
"books ranging from a biography on a genderless, 18th century preacher, to novels exploring contemporary racism in America"...
“A loss for our University, a loss for progress, and a loss for our nation resound in the aftermath of this decision.”...
"We found ten spherules. These are almost perfect spheres, or metallic marbles."...
"venturing deeper into the uncharted territory of artificial intelligence"...
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....
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....
"JUSTICE JACKSON’s race-infused world view falls flat at each step...
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....
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."...
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"...
"The allegations, first reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education, have unsettled US behavioural scientists."...
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