The Supreme Court’s decision to ban affirmative action last summer was expected to drastically change the demographics of college campuses around the country.
David Leonhardt, who has written about affirmative action for The Times, explains the extent and nature of that change as the new academic year gets underway.
Guest: David Leonhardt (https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-leonhardt) , a senior writer who runs The Morning (https://www.nytimes.com/series/us-morning-briefing) , The Times’s flagship daily newsletter.
Background reading:
• Two elite colleges have seen shifts in racial makeup (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/us/black-enrollment-affirmative-action-amherst-tufts-uva.html) after the affirmative action ban.
• The Supreme Court decision last year rejected affirmative action (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/politics/supreme-court-admissions-affirmative-action-harvard-unc.html) programs at Harvard and North Carolina.
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7:49 not a surprise… Glenn lowry, John whorter, and especially coleman Hughes favor colorblind policy to better target socioeconomic AND racially appropriate support
NYT ARE SHNOTZEES. I watched you go full red 10 days before Biden won. Your dark souls are plain for all to see.
Also more Black students going to HBCU s which means a decline in going to ivy League schools .
400 years of Slavery. 90 years of Jim Crow. Current Day Police brutality, red lining, industrial prison complex.