As Supreme Court considers affirmative action, a former critic of the policy voices regret

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Published May 31, 2023
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  • 11 positive sentiments and 6 negative sentiments for Affirmative Action.


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22% "And even after more than five decades of affirmative action in college admissions, dramatic inequities by race in college enrollment and degree attainment persist.""
22% "Unknowingly, Wang helped set in motion the latest movement to end affirmative action on college campuses.""
20% "How affirmative action shaped higher ed: The Supreme Court might ban it for good""
18% "That leadership has got to be diverse, Warikoo said during a recent panel discussion on affirmative action.""
16% "And if the court upholds affirmative action, he expects to hear, There was nothing wrong with this to begin with.""
16% "In an interview for a documentary film produced by WCNY and Retro Report, in partnership with The Hechinger Report, Wang said, I think affirmative ..."
12% "And although he became a poster child for opposition to affirmative action, Wang's concern was always more nuanced.""
8% "Colleges began enacting affirmative action policies in the 1960s and 1970s, aiming to add racial and gender diversity to college campuses, and opponents began ..."
6% "Supreme Court weighs affirmative action case, but most college admissions won't be affectedBack in the fall of 2013, Wang had moved to Massachusetts to ..."
2% "He's concluded, he said, that affirmative action is a Band-Aid to the cancer of systemic racism.""

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61% : Unknowingly, Wang helped set in motion the latest movement to end affirmative action on college campuses.
61% :And even after more than five decades of affirmative action in college admissions, dramatic inequities by race in college enrollment and degree attainment persist.
60% :How affirmative action shaped higher ed: The Supreme Court might ban it for good
59% : That leadership has got to be diverse," Warikoo said during a recent panel discussion on affirmative action.
58% : In an interview for a documentary film produced by WCNY and Retro Report, in partnership with The Hechinger Report, Wang said, "I think affirmative action is still very necessary in helping minorities who actually need it."
58% : And if the court upholds affirmative action, he expects to hear, "There was nothing wrong with this to begin with.
56% : And although he became a poster child for opposition to affirmative action, Wang's concern was always more nuanced.
54% : Colleges began enacting affirmative action policies in the 1960s and 1970s, aiming to add racial and gender diversity to college campuses, and opponents began challenging them shortly thereafter.
53% : Supreme Court weighs affirmative action case, but most college admissions won't be affectedBack in the fall of 2013, Wang had moved to Massachusetts to start classes at Williams, prestigious liberal arts school where about 10% of students were Asian, 7% were Black, 12% were Hispanic and 42% were white.
51% : He's concluded, he said, that "affirmative action is a Band-Aid to the cancer of systemic racism."
51% : With the potential end of race-conscious admissions looming, Wang isn't sure if a world without affirmative action is better or worse than the world we live in now.
49% : Since then, there have been several high-profile lawsuits that have modified the Supreme Court's position on affirmative action in limited ways.
44% : He believes colleges have unfairly used affirmative action to hold Asian Americans to higher standards than other applicants, and that policies that help some historically marginalized students but disadvantage others aren't fair.
41% : Wang thinks there must be a middle ground, some alternative that could make affirmative action more fair instead of eliminating it all together.
39% : Proponents of affirmative action say that ending the practice will hurt historically underrepresented people in higher education and will reinforce inequities that left these communities underrepresented in the first place.
39% : "You can't preference someone into a class without preferencing someone out," said Gail L. Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego and a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, who opposes affirmative action policies.
35% : Opinion: Affirmative action is not and has never been a zero-sum game in college admissionsNatasha Warikoo, a sociology professor at Tufts University in Massachusetts who has written several books on race in college admissions, said that lessons can be learned from the eight states that have banned affirmative action.

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