Affirmative action is about the economic bottom line, not just racial diversity

As the president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, Michelle Asha Cooper has worked to give low-income, minority and other underrepresented groups a pathway to a college degree. Inclusion is a key part of the nonprofit’s mission, just as it is central to Thursday’s historic Supreme Court ruling to uphold race-conscious college admissions. But the decision is about much more than that, Cooper says.

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