“gravely concerned that these schools are not complying” with the June 2023 landmark Supreme Court case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, in which the Court ruled race-based admission practices to be unconstitutional. Suspicions were raised by many over the admissions policies of the ...
The New Jews of Harvard Admissions.The author comments on the call for an investigation into possible racial bias in undergraduate admissions at Harvard University.Wall Street Journal - Eastern EditionRileyManhattanInstituteJasonManhattanInstituteL.
BOSTON (AP) — A trial alleging racial bias in Harvard University’s admissions system has presented two starkly different images of the elite Ivy League school. One side depicts a Harvard that plays racial favorites, lowering the admission bar for certain races and raising it for others, to ...
“Both programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points,” Roberts wrote. “We have never permitted admissions programs to work in that way, and we will...
Aug. 11, 2021, 8:45 AM UTC Harvard Admissions Case Tests O'Connor's 2003 Call on Race Bias Tiana Headley Reporter 25-year language doesn’t function as legal precedent, law scholars say May be referenced to pare back affirmative action or delay action ...
The U.S. Justice Department announced last month it was supporting the lawsuit, saying Harvard's admissions process "may be infected with racial bias." However, the dispute over the lawsuit appears to be big and hot. It's widely expected that the case will finally go to the Supreme Court...
Looking at a wider pool of applicants and admissions factors, Card found that the effect of being Asian-American was "statistically indistinguishable from zero." Both sides also are sparring over a 2013 internal study at Harvard exploring the racial makeup of the admitted class. The inquiry...
A Crimson analysis of data released during the trial revealed that, in Harvard admissions cycles stretching from 1995 to 2013, Asian-American applicants earned the highest average SAT score of any racial group that applied to the school. In that same time period, they also saw the lowest accept...
Admissions officers, like all of us, retain learned societal racial bias and may — consciously or unconsciously — apply this bias in the process, making them more willing to closely consider white students. If these admissions officers are not allowed to take into account the racism that Black...
(it was Eisenhower who engineered the desegregation of schools) are entitled to preference in college admissions, government contracting, executive jobs, etc. Claudine Gay’s parents, however, are from Haiti (Wikipedia). Her retention as Harvard president was supported by Barack Obama, whose father...