As the Supreme Court revisits the use of race in college admissions
next week, critics of affirmative action are hopeful the justices will
roll back the practice. A new report out Wednesday offers a big reason
for their optimism: evidence from at least some of the nine states that
don't use affirmative action that leading public universities can bring
meaningful diversity to their campuses through race-neutral means.
That conclusion is vigorously disputed by supporters of race-based
affirmative action, including universities in states like California
which cannot under state law factor race into admissions decisions. The
new report, by the Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century
Foundation and prominent advocate of class-based affirmative action,
calls those states' race-neutral policies largely successful. The
University of California and others call them a failure that's left
their campuses inadequately representative of the states they serve.
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