affirmative action
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PublishedJuly 15, 2023
Commentary: Life after affirmative action demands supercharged focus on diversity
I’ve learned just as much from a diverse community of peers at Bowdoin College as I have in class. We shouldn’t be trying to ignore our differences. We should be celebrating them.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2023
Maine Voices: The undoing of Clarence Thomas – and of racial justice in America
To eliminate racism, do we have to retain racial categories, or must we eliminate any idea of race as real?
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PublishedJuly 7, 2023
Our View: Maine colleges strike the right note on affirmative action
Strong responses to last week’s Supreme Court ruling indicate that institutional leadership is thinking about diversity in the right way.
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PublishedJuly 6, 2023
Commentary: Affirmative action carries on for students who are white, male and wealthy
The Supreme Court’s recent decision will do little to curb discrimination in higher education.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2023
Clarence Page: At least the Supreme Court offered alternatives to affirmative action
The Supreme Court scrapped race as a factor in college admissions, but the Roberts court pointed the way to economic class as a better remedy.
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PublishedJuly 4, 2023
Commentary: Affirmative action is radical Supreme Court’s latest casualty
A decades-long conservative goal has been met. A new fight over university admissions is inevitable.
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PublishedJuly 3, 2023
Civil rights group, spurred by affirmative action ruling, challenges Harvard over legacy admissions
A civil rights legal group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of alumni.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2023
Americans divided over landmark Supreme Court decisions in poll
Recent rulings by the Supreme Court, including last year’s decision on abortion rights, 'signal a dangerous creep towards authoritarianism and centralization of power,' Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2023
Without affirmative action, how will colleges seek racial diversity?
Colleges have potential tools to pursue racial diversity without actually looking at race in admissions. Many of the options are challenging, controversial, and maddeningly indirect.
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PublishedJune 29, 2023
Maine colleges say Supreme Court ruling will harm efforts to create diverse campuses
With race effectively eliminated as a factor in college admissions, Maine schools must refocus their efforts to create diverse student bodies.
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