Askwith Forum: The End of Race-Based College Admissions

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling this spring upheld the Michigan ban on affirmative action and further fueled ongoing debates about whether race should be considered in college admission decisions across the United States. Should selective college admissions policies replace race-based affirmative action with preferences for high achieving students from disadvantaged places or low family wealth, without regard to race? Does race-based affirmative action create needless political barriers to progressive policy for the future? Join Sheryll Cashin, a professor at Georgetown Law and author of the widely acclaimed book, Place, Not Race, and Richard Rothstein, a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute, as they discuss the role of race and class in the future of college campuses.

Moderator: Natasha Kumar Warikoo, Ed.M.'97, associate professor of education, HGSE

Speakers:
Sheryll Cashin, professor of law, Georgetown Law; author of Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America
Richard Rothstein, visiting scholar in education, HGSE; research associate, Economic Policy Institute; senior fellow, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, University of California Berkeley School of Law

[triple_gem_shining]

We all manifest our own destiny. There are plenty of immigrants that do very well for themselves. All you have to do is look at the Asian immigrants. Overlapping statistics for underprivileged peoples are relevant but not deteriminstic. When looking at the whole picture you realize that people make the choices they make based on what they believe, not what perceived conspiring evil pervades against them. That's just nonsense. If you wanna get up, then get up; plenty of people do it

[mbaptiste]

his body language while the professor (she) is speaking, bothers me. you can disagree and still be respectful and present. neither is wrong. both are views and perspectives that are offered for change, growth and evolution.