What Comes After Meritocracy?
The Chronicle | Steven Brint
In this piece, Steven Brint foresees SCOTUS ruling against affirmative action, standardized testing being eliminated, and attempts to “replace it with more representative systems” falling short. As a remedy, he argues for a “civocracy” in which classrooms are populated with more students interested in bettering society.
“The Supreme Court…appears likely to rule against the affirmative-action policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina. If it does, it will fuel the search for new methods of social selection that are both constitutionally acceptable, per the Supreme Court, and consistent with higher education’s commitment to inclusive admissions. Civocracy’s criteria, if designed with the court’s ruling in mind, can do both.”
Arguing that colleges must take more responsibility for their role in the larger society, he argues that “selective colleges must become instruments of national renewal and progress.”
