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Can Affirmative Action Survive?


Lundi, 26 Juillet, 2021 - 19:45
The policy has made diversity possible. Now, after decades of debate, the Supreme Court is poised to decide its fate.
The Court may signal that it considers efforts aimed explicitly at racial equity to be unconstitutional.
1. the history
In June, 2016, Justice Samuel Alito took the unusual step of reading aloud from the bench a version of his lengthy dissent in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. A white applicant who had been denied admission had sued, saying that she’d been discriminated against because of her race. The Supreme Court, by the narrowest of margins and on the narrowest of grounds, upheld Texas’s admissions policy. Alito, with steely indignation, picked apart the logic of U.T.’s arguments and of his colleagues’ majority opinion. “This is affirmative action gone berserk,” he declared. ....

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On the Harvard's academic to-do list | Harvard Magazine


In his installation address, President Lawrence S. Bacow said, “[W]e must strive to model the behavior we would hope to see elsewhere.” His context then was sustaining free speech on campus in the search for truth. When he invokes the phrase now, it seems broadly applicable to the ways Harvard must conduct itself, if it truly aspires to be a leading institution of higher education, at a moment when many institutions seem to be stumbling.
During the past 15 months, the University’s helmspeople have been focused on operating during a lethal pandemic. But Harvard has simultaneously undertaken many internal inquiries into its deep past and present practices: to understand itself better, and to “model the behavior” the community hopes to see take root across the wider, riven society. Totting them up may be instructive. ....

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