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If An Applicant Didn't Check a Race Box, Harvard Would Assign a Race Anyway

Imagine you were a black or Hispanic applicant who did not want to be given a racial/ethnic preference when applying to Harvard. Or you were an Asian American applicant who feared that your Asian background would be a hindrance. The obvious thing to do, beyond lying on your application, would…

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Harvard and other ‘Ivy Plus’ colleges are failing low-income students, Goldman Sachs says—but underfunded HBCUs don't

After the affirmative action and student debt decisions, the investment bank just wrote a scathing report on the landscape of higher education.

Fortune

Physicist who found spherical meteor fragments claims they may come from an alien spaceship – here's what to make of it

Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he claims may be material from an interstellar alien spaceship.

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Voters Decided 10 Affirmative Action-related Ballot Measures Since 1996

Voters decided 10 affirmative action-related ballot measures since 1996, opposing the practice eight times, & supporting it twice.

Zenger

America still has a race problem, but affirmative action isn’t the solution

If the Supreme Court’s recent decision has the effect of focusing on the broken pipeline of K-12 education, it will have done far more for disadvantaged students than any racial preference program

Chicago Sun-Times

Biden’s 100th U.S. District Court judge confirmed

Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day:

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Editorial: The stupid sons of rich men: Colleges must end the unfair practice of legacy admissions

Thursday, after the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down affirmative action in higher education admissions in a case against Harvard University, President Joe Biden took aim at the old boys network of giving a boost to the kids of alumni, saying “Today, I’m directing the Department of Education to analyze what…

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Justice Kagan: Affirmative Action Suggests that Beneficiaries Could Not be Accepted Based on Merit Alone

OK, she said it in 2006 as a dean, not a Justice, and about women and law review membership at Harvard, not SFFA and minority admissions, but I would be interested in knowing why she has expressed this concern about women, but not URMs. Relatedly, my former colleague (now DC…

Reason

US court kicks away ladder of opportunity

Fifteen years ago, I watched in rapt attention as a resplendent, yet surreal, scene unfolded: the election of the first-ever African-American US president, Barack Obama. In the past week, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a landmark 6-3 ruling, struck down what may have been one of the…

Bangkok Post

Without Affirmative Action, We All Lose

A Harvard graduate on the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the program that completely changed her life.

Marie Claire

Justice Sotomayor and the Manipulation of "Race"

Justice Sotomayor decides who is a person of color based on whether it supports her views regarding structural racism.

Reason

Supreme court closes door on affirmative action in university admissions

For decades, the admissions policies of many prestigious US universities have been deliberately skewed to increase the number of black students. And with very good reason, said Jerome Karabel in The New York Times.

The Week

Harvard legacy admissions targeted by Massachusetts lawmakers

A bill in Massachusetts seeks to tax rich colleges that favor families of alumni and donors in admissions policies — namely Harvard University — and give the money to poorer community colleges.

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Is This the End of the Ivy League Nepo Baby?

A new complaint argues that legacy admissions violate the Civil Rights Act.

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Striking a blow against affirmative action in America

The U.S. seeks to eliminate all distinctions based on race universally, which is a narrow view of equality and which prevents broad-based race conscious measures

The Independent UK

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

A daring deep sea search has found tiny pieces of a mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth in 2014. The ‘alien hunter of Harvard’ tells Bevan Hurley the discovery may be evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization visiting Earth

Zenger

Supreme Court Bars Publicly Funded Universities From Considering Race

Landmark decision ends decades of debate, impacting affirmative action policies and minority applicants

Reason

Say Farewell To The "Diversity Benefits" Rationale For Affirmative Action

The majority and dissent state the quiet part out loud: affirmative action was never about the educational benefits from diversity.

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'I lived underground and survived on radiation water - now I'm going to Harvard'

Alina Beskrovna has told how she hid in a basement in Mariupol, Ukraine, and drank "radiator water" as Russian shelling rained down but now her family has escaped and she is taking a Master's at Harvard

Salon

Harvard's "legacy admissions" under fire

"Why are we rewarding children for privileges and advantages accrued by prior generations?"

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Chiefs UDFA Spotlight: Harvard EDGE Truman Jones

Our #Chiefs UDFA Spotlight series continues with an Ivy League edge rusher looking to make his mark in Kansas City.

The Independent UK

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

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Editorial: The Supreme Court’s solution for racial bias is to pretend it doesn’t exist

The U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings on Thursday that race-conscious college admissions programs are unlawful was widely expected but still deeply discouraging.

Reason

Just The Facts, Ma'am

The importance of the trial records in Students for Fair Admissions and 303 Creative

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