Harvard Needs Merit-Based Admissions
Wall Street Journal | Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at HLS, argues that a SCOTUS decision against affirmative action in favor of meritocracy could be the impetus for ensuring true diversity on campus.
“The time has come… for universities to abandon their efforts to achieve superficial, artificial diversity based on race… [in favor of] more political, ideological, geographic, religious and other types of diversity that are at least as relevant to the educational mission of the university as race and ethnicity.”
Dershowitz makes the case for meritocracy, which “encourages hard work, diligence and achievement. The current system of university admissions doesn’t cultivate these virtues. Instead it rewards identity politics.”
Read the WSJ Article (or see Substack version)
Related:
Alan Dershowitz: Time to End Racial Preferences in Admissions (The Dersh Show 5/18/22)
