Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by 0xcafefood on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:19PM
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> In a lot of ways, affirmative action is a boogeyman that doesn't exist in the way many people think.
In that case, can you explain why two schools would've fought for the explicit use of race in deciding school admissions all the way to the Supreme Court?
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by jvanderbot on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:38PM
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California has been trying to overturn it's race-blind policy for some time. The original policy was instituted about the same time as everyone else's. The intent of overturning it, of course, is to then go further and institute a policy more like the one seen in this case.
It has been overturned at the referendum level every time.
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by arcticbull on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:32PM
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I expect part of this was just retaining their right to do so as they are losing a degree of flexibility in admissions here.
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by prpl on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:29PM
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Laziness? It’s cheap and it gives them a lever they wanted.
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by Georgelemental on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:51PM
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> [In California], they already for a long time do not consider race as a factor in admissions, as per law.
They do to an extent, they just try to hide it as "holistic review" or such, make it hard to prove.
Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by nradov on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:54PM
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You are referring to California public colleges. Some California private colleges which received federal funding were still using racial identity as a factor in admissions. I received an email from my alma mater today stating that they were discontinuing this practice due to the Supreme Court decision.
In a lot of ways, affirmative action is a boogeyman that doesn't exist in the way many people think. In many large states, such as california, they already for a long time do not consider race as a factor in admissions, as per law. And, IMO, california has done a pretty good job of having fairly diverse schools, and they do precisely what you say - they focus their efforts on lifting up those who come from poor socioeconomic situations, which tends to capture a lot of the same people affirmative action was trying to do.