Affirmative action articles
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California’s new affirmative action plan
The University of California, San Diego, is coming up with creative ways to implement a form of affirmative action for admittance into its engineering programs. Affirmative action was illegal in California long before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that colleges and universities could no longer consider an applicant’s race when admitting him or […]
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Colleges Push For ‘Segregated’ Graduation Celebrations After Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling
Separate graduations started in the 1970s for Black students, but now they're available for Arab students and even low-income scholars.
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1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones poses with 'unbowed' ex-Harvard boss Claudine Gay during visit to college where she called for it to re-enact affirmative action for descendants of slaves
Nikole Hannah-Jones spoke at Harvard's Legacy of Slavery Symposium. The 1619 Project founder said the Ivy League should re-enact affirmative action. She posed with the outset university president and said they are both 'unbowed'