admissions

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2/8/2023
  

  If Affirmative Action is Banned, Colleges Need to Do Wealth-Based Admissions Right

  by Peter Dreier, Richard D. Kahlenberg and Melvin L. Oliver

  Omitting family wealth from admissions decisions harms educational equity twice over, because wealth is so influential over opportunity and because it correlates so strongly with race. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/15/2023
  

  Affirmative Action Cases May Force Colleges to Rethink Everything

  Some experts warn of a possible lost generation of college students from underrepresented backgrounds if race-conscious admissions are prohibited. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/2/2022
  

  Legal Scholar: "Diversity" a Weak Substitute for Justice, Opened Door to SCOTUS Killing Affirmative Action

  by Richard Thompson Ford

  The cause of equality was dealt a fatal blow when courts and colleges shifted the focus of affirmative action from fighting racism to promoting diversity, argues legal scholar Richard Thompson Ford. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/7/2021
  

  Abolish Legacy Admissions

  by Ronald J. Daniels

  "Legacy preference is immobility written as policy, preserving for children the same advantages enjoyed by their parents. It embodies in stark and indefensible terms inherited privilege in higher education."

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/1/2020
  

  ‘The Merit Myth’

  Anthony P. Carnevale, one of the authors of 'The Merit Myth," discusses his new book about how colleges admit and serve students.

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• 3/17/19
  

  Parents, College, Money, and the American Dream

  by Janet Golden

  At a time when less than 20 percent of Americans completed high school and far fewer went on to higher education, financial institutions told parents to start saving for college.