How many students do you think MIT is admitting to account for the drop at other schools? I very much doubt that the numbers add up.
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The professional litigant who hired the attorneys did. From the NPR article:
[Edward] Blum is not a lawyer but according to the American Civil Liberties Union, he has a “long history of crafting legal attacks on civil rights.”
He helped orchestrate Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court ruling that rolled back voting rights, making it harder for ethnic minorities to vote. And he’s been laser focused on eliminating the use of race and ethnicity in college admissions.
And after a court rejected his first attempt to do so, made with white students…
“I needed plaintiffs,” he told the group gathered by the Houston Chinese Alliance in 2015. “I needed Asian plaintiffs.”
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That brings up a good “so what do we do now?” discussion:
Obviously the Supreme Court decision was terrible, but if these institutions were really serious and committed to increasing diversity among their students they still have some options that would at least partially accomplish some of the same things that the old affirmative action programs did. There’s nothing currently preventing them from giving preference to students from different economic and geographical backgrounds, or to students who are attending underfunded public schools.
Even 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education public schools remain deeply segregated. That’s obviously terrible but it also means we know which public schools could be used to give preference for admissions if we want increased diversity in universities.
But like I said that’s an option IF the universities actually want to increase diversity, and that’s an awfully big “if.” Especially when selecting students from less affluent public schools means that the university needs to give out more financial aid.
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