As Affirmative Action Decision Looms, Colleges Look for Alternative Ways to Achieve Diversity
Boston Globe | Laura Krantz
“Alarmed that the US Supreme Court could strike down affirmative action next year, higher education leaders and thinkers have begun to strategize: How can they continue diversifying elite college campuses without using race as a factor in admissions?”
“Race-neutral” alternatives mentioned include increasing geographic diversity, recruitment from a greater number of high schools, finding students through community centers and churches, increasing community college transfers, increasing financial aid, seeking students from the top percentage across many high schools, and moving away from legacy and early action preferences.
“Although there is no proxy for race, said Paulette Granberry Russell, president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, the looming Supreme Court cases should remind institutions that they should be constantly reexamining whether their admissions practices serve all students equally.”
Related:
A Harvard without Affirmative Action (Crimson 5/26/22)
How Universities Will Sidestep SCOTUS on Affirmative Action (Real Clear Politics 1/28/22)
Strategies in States Where Affirmative Action is Banned (The Century Foundation, 2014)
