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8/31/2024

Topic Reading-Vol.4512-8/31/2024

Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Top US college's diversity slumps after affirmative action ban
In a higher education context in the US, affirmative action is the practice of considering some student background characteristics such as race as a factor in deciding whether to admit an applicant. Colleges that engage in affirmative action have extremely low acceptance rates, such as Harvard and MIT. The use of racial quotas, in which colleges reserve a designated number of spots for students based on their race and admit them exclusively on that basis to maintain students’ racial, ethnic, and economic diversity had been widely debated in higher education for decades until when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the deliberate use of race by schools in college admissions in June last year. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced that the percentage of black, Hispanic, Native American and/or Pacific islanders among the newly enrolled students dropped by 10 percentage points from the previous year to 16% while the percentage of Asian American students jumped from 40% to 47%. Cultural emphasis on education, family expectations and support, and socioeconomic factors are some of the factors why the presence of Asian Americans is so high in America’s higher education. The proportion of white students was nearly unchanged at 38%. What about other prominent universities and colleges?
Read the article and learn about the impact of the abolition of affirmative action in higher education.

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