Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Margaret Krome: Affirmative action counters embedded bias

Madison.com
Posted: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 8:00 am

Our daughter is applying to colleges this fall, and I’m acutely aware of the competition for spaces at top schools. But I strongly support affirmative action. Public debate about its role was sparked last week by the Center for Equal Opportunity’s announcement that it had identified racially discriminatory admissions policies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The conservative Virginia-based group said that the university favors black and Hispanic undergraduate and law school students over whites and Asian-Americans.

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