Diversity on Trial: Affirmative Action’s Michigan Test (Podcast)

Nov. 15, 2022, 6:52 PM UTC

In 1978, the Supreme Court allowed colleges to take race into account when crafting their incoming classes. Throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s, that’s what many schools did: to get a diverse incoming class, universities used race as one factor among many.

But some schools get a lot of applicants — tens of thousands of students applying for just a few thousand spots. How do you complete an individualized review of so many people? How do you make sure you consider race consistently across those tens of thousands? Is there a way to streamline the process while still ...

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