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• The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas, a case that could decide the future of affirmative action in American higher education...
  Read full New York Times article: "When Race Is Left at the College Door"

• Could affirmative action based on race actually hinder some of the students it was designed to help, as some justices suggested?
  Read full Washington Post article: "Scalia was wrong: Students admitted through affirmative action thrive at elite colleges"

• Class-based affirmative action can produce racial diversity – but only if legacy admissions end.
  Read the full article in Aljazeera America: "The case for real reform in college admissions"

• Once race-conscious admissions stopped being about equity and reparation, the only argument for it was the enrichment of white students. That was never going to hold up.
  Read the full article in The Nation: "How Diversity Destroyed Affirmative Action"

• In an attempt to remedy the glaring underrepresentation of several population groups in their student bodies, Israel’s top four universities implemented an affirmative action program. ​Read the full article in The Huffington Post: "Affirmative Action Matters in Israel, Too"

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Video

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