In addition to writing about their favorite songs and why they want to go to college, students applying to Emory University in Atlanta this fall will get new essay prompts aimed at teasing out details about their cultural backgrounds. The revised questions are among the changes at Emory and other highly selective colleges after the U.S. Supreme Court in June ruled that race-conscious admissions policies were unlawful, upending a longstanding practice for increasing minority enrollment in higher education. Universities must find new ways to create diverse student bodies and avoid the precipitous declines in admissions of Black and Latino students seen after prior bans on affirmative action in states including California and Michigan.
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about a student. but if a student should choose to discuss their identity, their lived experience, their actual race and perhaps in admissions as a, and then they are able to consider that. and how does this quagmire work? wooden admissions officer have to say, hold on a second, they talked about race or their personal experience, am i now forbidden because of what the supreme court had to say? that s apparently why the administration has spoken out about having some type of standards to use as a guide for different educators and admissions officers. but it does really open a kind of pandora s box. particularly with a footnote about the military, when we know that there is a correlation between the officers ranks and that which who goes to a university or college setting. there are a whole lot of issues here that are going to be front and center, which will likely lead to further litigation. but mostly this notion of the dynamic, the hypocrisy to some, and the just overarching uncertai
the youngest of the supreme court justices, of course, in her career. he focused instead on the idea of a racialized ideology driving her particular perspective as opposed to looking at what the constitution, what the actual intent was, and beyond it. what we saw here really, and i heard your prior guest talking about what the conundrum can be and how this will work in practice, that s really the crux of, i think, the next frontier of arguments here. how do you on the one hand say that you cannot consider race as a factor and on the other hand have a sentence that says you can have a student or applicant discuss such things in a way that talks about their identity, their lived experience, their journey? what is an admissions officer truly to do to avoid future litigation? this will be a difficult task. a difficult task with a lot of litigation to come without