Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Stuck on Simple: The Challenge of Moving Beyond Diversity to Inclusion

By Deborah Archer, The Huffington Post

This fall, the United States Supreme Court will, for the second time, hear a challenge to the University of Texas at Austin's race-conscious admissions program in Fisher v. University of Texas. In the earlier case, the United States Supreme Court ruled that colleges and universities could continue to consider race or ethnicity as one of several factors in an admissions policy that seeks to achieve broad diversity goals. But, advocates for a white woman denied admission to the University of Texas continue to question the value of diversity and the constitutionality of allowing colleges and universities to consider race or ethnicity in creating diverse classrooms and institutions.
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