Summary:Race-neutral policies are harmful for achieving true racial equity and justice. Throughout U.S. political history, there have been a plethora of policy initiatives that were designed to lift only members of a disadvantaged socioeconomic group without acknowledging the racial component, thus failing to address long-standing inequityor vice versa. 2022-05-13T12:30:17-07:00 endobj Exploring how race, ethnicity, and class intersect to affect economic outcomes in the United States. 1: 5681. 13 0 obj Review this recorded session from June2022 to learn additional specific, race-neutral enrollment management strategies in advance of the major U.S. Supreme Court action expected this fall and next year. 30 0 obj The case could set an important precedent because it addresses facially neutral attempts at racial balancing, and because the school in question is currently over 70% Asian-American, and new . 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Affirmative action decision-making in employment and education is a useful way to implement race-conscious practices that address inequities springing from historical barriers for marginalized people. <>22]/P 18 0 R/Pg 45 0 R/S/Link>> The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for a Virginia school board to admit more Black and Latino students and slightly fewer Asian students to a magnet high school for math and science. 2021. <>stream <>1]/P 6 0 R/Pg 45 0 R/S/Link>> Breadwinning Mothers Continue to be the U.S. 2019. Consequently, disparities in wealth and numerous other indicators connected to homeownership and residential patterns continue to grow while the economy leaves communities of color further behind. Moreover, the new policy gave extra consideration to students who came from low-income households. Satio, Leland T. 2009. Recent history suggests banning affirmative action will significantly reduce the number of racial minorities on campus. Two "race-neutral alternatives" are frequently proposed: a search for socioeconomic diversity, which is often a proxy for racial and ethnic diversity, and a plan to admit the top candidates . Similar studies conducted by Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce issued the same verdict. Review each program or policyand consider adding/strengthening race-neutral strategies. Perhaps that student took part in extracurricular activities signaling membership in a minority community. 2016. 3 0 obj Black Women Workers Are Essential During the Crisis and for the Recovery but Still Are Greatly Underpaid. Working Economics Blog (Economic Policy Institute), August 12, 2020. 2019. The act did not tackle the residential patternssuch as the segregation into neighborhoods with lower price appreciation and less investmentthat resulted from the past policies (Rothstein 2017). In 2009, Texas amended the policy, raising the threshold to 6-7% for the University of Texas at Austin. This analysis indicates that these disparities are largely due to a racialized class system. Given the state of educational inequality in our country, solely relying on race-neutral policies does not eliminate discrimination; it reinforces it. Currently, within state prisons alone, Black people are incarcerated at nearly five times the rate of white Americans and hold a state average incarceration rate of 1,240 per 100,000 residents (Nellis 2021). And race-neutral admissions policies do not appear to result in the degree of parity that race-conscious admissions policies have produced. A large body of evidence shows so-called race-neutral admissions policies are not as effective for attaining racial diversity on campus. Due to the combination of many of these factors, Black women constitute one of the most vulnerable groups in our economy and society. The Supreme Court's choice to review affirmative action cases at Harvard and the University of North Carolina is troubling and portends a regressive shift, she says. How should we interpret the race variable? The hearing came eight years after Students for Fair Admissions Inc., founded by conservative activist Edward Blum, first sued Harvard seeking to end its race-conscious admissions policy, which is . Rothstein, Richard. By 2019, UCLA's Black enrollment had grown to almost 6%. The University of California evaluates students based on numerous factors, according to a statement shared with BestColleges, including an appreciation of their individual context and lived experiences. On Oct. 31, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for two related affirmative action cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill). In addition to arguing that there are race-neutral options that could be used in admissions, the plaintiffs say Harvard is using race excessively, so theyre using more race than is permissible under Grutter because Grutter wants race to be a mild factor, Forde-Mazrui said. EPIs research helps policymakers, opinion leaders, advocates, journalists, and the public understand the bread-and-butter issues affecting ordinary Americans. And that won't end. <> Subject matter experts In two lawsuits challenging U-M's admissions policies, the court ruled in favor of the Law School and voted 6-3 to partially reverse the university's undergraduate policy, while still allowing for the consideration of race in admissions. Solomon, Danyelle, Conor Maxwell, and Abril Castro. Supreme Court OKs 'race neutral' admissions policy to admit more Black, Latino students . Browse events and recorded sessions. Countywide, the demographic breakdown of all high school students is 38% white, 27% Latino, 19.5% Asian and 10% Black. endobj endobj The decision, dated Sept. 30, emphasizes the need for consideration of race in admissions as a temporary measure to get society to a point of . 25 0 obj However, over the past several years, affirmative action has been under attack in the higher education space as some believe race shouldnt be a factor for admission into a school or program. <><>17 18]/P 18 0 R/Pg 45 0 R/S/Link>> Paul B. Stephan 77 Weighs In, A Year of War: Three Experts Weigh In on the Ukraine Invasion So Far, Common Law Explores Why Once-Contentious Natural Gas Pipelines Are Now Rubber-Stamped, Book by Danielle Citron Traces History of Privacy Law, Reforms for Today, Podcast: Global Crisis Triggered by Knowledge Economy, Says Paul B. Stephan 77, Podcast: Kim Krawiec Discusses Political Economy of Organ Transplantation. The one involving UNC-Chapel Hill features similar claims but adds white students into the mix. Wilson, Valerie, and Melat Kassa. Tax Policy Center, November 2021. Centre of Economic Policy Research, December 2019. By this standard, UGA does not have any quota systems in . On October 31, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases about the consideration of race in college admissions: SFFA v. UNC and SFFA v. Harvard. Measure and evaluate their efficacy. In the Harvard case, Students for Fair Admissions also is calling for overturning Grutter v. Bollinger. The first is a preference based on socioeconomic factors. What's more, both the University of California and Michigan have considerable financial resources for such recruitment programs, and they suggest it would be that much more difficult for other state universities to replicate their efforts. Like the University of California, Michigan told the court that after many years of trying to achieve racial diversity, it has proven that goal cannot be adequately realized at selective institutions without taking race into account as one factor among many in admissions decisions. <>42]/P 23 0 R/Pg 45 0 R/S/Link>> It has since experienced a marked and sustained drop among the most-underrepresented groups: Black and Native American enrollments have fallen by 44% and 90%, respectively. Only race-conscious policiespolicies that may disproportionately help communities of colorcan dismantle the structural barriers to prosperity, safety, and equity for Black Americans. Race-neutral admissions have exacerbated inequality by failing to account for discrimination, structural barriers, and a lack of access to opportunity and resources that students of color routinely face, the regents said. A third claim is that Harvard is engaged in racial balancing, which means they are essentially seeking a quota, Forde-Mazrui said. We must face race head-on to meaningfully address the racial inequality that persists in our society. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The decision is a welcome affirmation that using race-conscious decision-making is both lawful and necessary in higher education. endobj Communications and stakeholder engagement. No, says the report. 2020. Sawhill, Isabell V., and Richard V. Reeves. The school system has insisted that its new policies are race neutral, and the panel evaluating applicants is not even aware of applicants' race as it conducts its reviews. Within the past few years, Harvard University has been under legal attack to ban affirmative action in its admission process despite the literature available indicating that schools that rely on race-neutral policies and abandon affirmative action decision-making are less accessible and less diverse to underrepresented students of color (Burgess 2020). Notes:AAPI refers to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Public data series accessed through the Housing Vacancies and Homeownership (CPS/HVS) data tables. <>/MediaBox[0 0 612 792]/Parent 63 0 R/Resources<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/StructParents 0/Tabs/S/Type/Page>> Prince 12.5 (www.princexml.com) Jobs at EPI The United States' highest court is hearing arguments against using race as a factor in college admissions policies Monday in cases involving the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University. 2020. Attempts to use "race-neutral" models in place of affirmative action to determine college admissions in California are likely to result in declining minority representation on most campuses, according to a new study released in a leading national education research journal by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Boston College, and the University of Iowa. The Court stated that the 10% plan did not meet the university's The school system insisted its new admissions policies are race-neutral; among other things, they noted that the panelists who evaluate applications don't even know the race of the students they . 2011. . See key cases. Following are key reasons why we need to combat the harms of race-neutral policy with race-conscious policies to build a racially just economy and how those policies should be structured: Over 50 years ago, the civil rights era ushered in numerous transformative policies that sought to give people of color equal access to various social and democratic institutions free from explicit discrimination based on race. v. Regents of the University of Michigan et al, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. Despite the intention of prohibiting discrimination by outlawing redlining (and other practices, such as real estate agents steering Black buyers away from white neighborhoods), the Fair Housing Act only mitigated the harm inflicted on communities of color by outlawing future racist policies. In the 2016 verdict, the court found that race played only a modest role UT's "holistic" affirmative action policy. In the cases before the Supreme Court, the University of California also filed a brief urging the Court to allow the use of race . Why not implement affirmative action measures for the poor? Can universities find more creative ways to consider race in admissions decisions? Daria Roithmayr University of Southern California 60 0 obj They point to race-neutral college admission policies in California, Michigan and other states where the practice is banned and diversity has declined. Articles Regardless of the courts ruling, we will remain steadfast in our commitment to make diversity a core part of the educational experience at UVA, and will strive to do all we can, within the bounds of the law, to continue to admit and recruit a widely diverse student body, they wrote. Under the new admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson, the entering freshman class would be 54% Asian, 22% white, 11% Latino and 7% Black, the board said. You will also get a recommended framework, suggested strategies, and a timeline for immediate action based on a range of possible outcomes. Affirmative action is a set of policies and practices within government or an organization that seeks to boost participation of underrepresented groups (based on their race, gender, sexuality, or nationality) in specific areas such as college admissions or managerial ranks. In this video, we look back at the decades-long history of affirmative . Policies that may disproportionately help communities of color are critical to building a more racially just society and economy because historically communities of color have been socially, economically, and politically disempowered. <>/Metadata 2 0 R/Outlines 5 0 R/Pages 3 0 R/StructTreeRoot 6 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> Authoritative, up-to-date data on the living standards of American workers. Hanauer, Nick, and Jessyn Farrell. A former columnist for The Chronicle Darlene Earnest is a copy editor for BestColleges. For example, in the first year UC Berkeley eliminated race as a factor in its admissions, the admissions rate for Black students dropped from 50 percent to 20 percent and from 45 percent to 21 percent for Latinx students. In Students for Fair Admissions language, Harvard is penalizing Asian applicants, so that its even harder to get into Harvard if youre Asian than if youre white, Forde-Mazrui said. . But unlike in the Virginia high school case, Harvard acknowledges it considers the race and ethnicity of applicants in deciding whom to admit. This includes voting, education, employment, and much more. The persistent and in some cases widening gaps between economic outcomes for Black and white Americans are largely due to structural racism; racism that is entrenched within the very fabric of our customs, laws, systems, and institutions. Center for American Progress. Race-conscious policies are just as important on state and local levels as on a federal level. Race Neutral Policies as Barriers to Reconciliation. YouTube video, 59:21. Various years. passcode: access2022! 2018. The court rightly upheld a lower court finding that Harvards use of race as a factor in its admissions process is constitutional. endobj In 2006, UCLA's entering class of almost 5,000 included only 96 Black students, known on campus as the Infamous 96. The Supreme Court heard the case twice (Fisher I and Fisher II). The University of California has spent billions of dollars pursuing race-neutral alternatives. This fall the U.S. SupremeCourtwill hear two federal cases on the use of race in admissions. 1, Meredith v. 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Harvard, Listen to the oral arguments from SFFA v. UNC, Read our full public statement on the amicus brief, Brief on SCOTUS taking UNC and Harvard Cases. Both California's and Michigan's experiences bear this out. Race & Reconciliation Initiative at Texas Christian University. EPI is an independent, nonprofit think tank that researches the impact of economic trends and policies on working people in the United States. There are several states that have already banned affirmative action, including California, Washington, Michigan and Florida. Satio, Leland T. 2009. Race-neutral policiessuch as equal protection civil rights lawsfail to reverse the gaps and barriers that exist because of structural racism. WASHINGTON Conservative Supreme Court justices indicated Monday that they are willing to end the explicit consideration of race in college admissions as they weighed cases challenging affirmative action policies at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University. Policies such as ELC and holistic admission have improved the diversity of UC's student body, but they still haven't . As the late Justice John Paul Stevens once asserted: There is no moral or constitutional equivalence between a policy that is designed to perpetuate a caste system and one that seeks to eradicate racial subordination.. Immediately following the affirmative action ban, it notes, the number of first-year students from underrepresented minority groups dropped precipitously across the system, plummeting by more than 50% at its most selective campuses, including Berkeley and Los Angeles (UCLA). 2021. The second is the class rank approach. Affirmative Action Just Lost in CaliforniaAgain. Vox Media, November 4, 2020. Forde-Mazrui said this case is more complicated. Newsroom A year after the landmark Dobbs ruling, conservative legal campaigners could secure another major victory. Not initially. 2018. Schlesinger, Traci. 2021. Race-neutral admissions policies have had mixed results. Kahlenberg claims this tactic is fairer and more appealing. Race-neutral admissions emerged in 1995 as a significant policy issue when the Regents of the University of California (UC) adopted Resolution SP-1, prohibiting the use of race, religion, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the UC admission process. Race-neutral admissions policies purportedly do not consider race in making admissions decisions, but are still designed to assemble a student body reflecting the diverse composition of the college-age population. And that's certainly what our cases say you have to do. application/pdf Race-conscious college admissions policies are critical to enrolling underrepresented minorities including Black and Latinx students and have been upheld by the courts, says American Civil Liberties Union President Deborah Archer. Jones, Janelle, John Schmitt, and Valerie Wilson. The new policy also dropped several standardized tests that were used to rank applicants, as well as the $100 fee to apply. Elena Kagan recused herself due to conflict and Antonin Scalia died shortly before the ruling. Consideration of all aspects of a students background for admissionincluding raceis not only constitutional; itscriticalto becoming a more equitable society. endobj Its racial egalitarianism that motivates affirmative action, in his legal opinion. endobj Hard Truths: Why Only Race-Conscious Policies Can Fix Racism in Higher Education. Such questions would enable admissions officers to better understand prospective students and their backgrounds without explicitly considering race. Published March 22, 2021. To access the recording, use this passcode: access2022! 2011. endobj Moreover, those students, even though they represent the top tier of their high school class, aren't always adequately prepared for college. It claims numerous studies have demonstrated that replacing a holistic admissions policy with a top 10% plan would not successfully restore the number of students of color at the most selective four-year campuses that would be achieved under a policy that considers race. The justices, over three dissents from conservatives, agreed with a federal appeals court that the school board may use "race neutral" means . Race/ethnicity categories are mutually exclusive (i.e., white non-Hispanic, Black non-Hispanic, AAPI non-Hispanic, and Hispanic any race). Taifa, Nkechi. And Richard Sander, a University of California, Los Angeles, law professor, has shown that adopting race-neutral admissions policies may lead to improved outcomes for racial minorities. Events In the case involving the University of North Carolina, Students for Fair Admissions argues the college discriminates against white and Asian applicants by giving preference to Black, Hispanic and Native American students. He cites a 2016 Gallup poll in which 63% of Americans opposed colleges using race in admissions decisions while 61% of them favored the consideration of economic circumstances. Under the new admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson, the entering freshman class would be 54% Asian . "While Proposition 209 promoted race neutrality in university student recruitment, admissions, financial aid, student academic support and employee hiring, the policy has made it more . Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action et al. The Sentencing Project. Nonprofit Professional Employees Union. Glynn, Sarah Jane. For example, in the first year UC Berkeley eliminated race as a factor in its admissions, the admissions rate for Black students dropped from 50 percent to 20 percent and from 45 . In collaboration with AACRAO, ACT, and NACAC, College Board also submitted an amicus brief for the cases in 2022. So is there a viable race-neutral substitute for affirmative action that sufficiently satisfies diversity goals? 2020. While the court continues to permit affirmative action policies in higher education, it has done so with increasing hesitance and an ever-growing preference for race-neutral alternatives. 2021. But if college presidents embrace race . Richard H. Sander and Aaron Danielson The Sentencing Project, October 2021. Texas tried to implement a race-neutral admissions policy, but it did not help increase underrepresented minority students at flagship public colleges. Several state university systems have created race-neutral policies to determine which students are admitted and which are not. Campuses that have implemented race-neutral admissions policies have seen dramatic declines in enrollment of underrepresented minorities. As a result, those who are admitted are less likely to enroll. The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for a Virginia school board to admit more Black and Latino students and slightly fewer Asian students to a magnet high school for math and science. This Essay reviews and synthesizes contemporary social science research relevant to the constitutional question, in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin and more broadly, of whether consideration of socioeconomic status and percent plan admissions based on high school rank represent viable race-neutral alternatives to race-based affirmative action programs. A crucial component to equitable policymaking is using the intersection of race and class as a policy target. Previously more than 80% of the students came from six high-achieving feeder schools. Black undergraduate enrollment fell from 7.03% in 2006, when Proposal 2 was passed, to 3.92% in 2021. 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