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Tag: affirmative action


UMD administration, students hope to maintain campus diversity post-affirmative action

This university now considers 24 factors for admissions and removed the consideration for race and ethnicity, university president Darryll Pines said.
  • Natalie Weger
  • February 26, 2024

To honor Piscataway land, UMD must provide free tuition for Native students

It's time for this university to put some substance behind the land acknowledgement.
  • Isabella Cusack
  • November 28, 2023

SCOTUS already weakened affirmative action. A Virginia high school case could destroy it.

An unfavorable ruling could be a dangerous step towards a white-centric education system.
  • Tara Davoodi
  • September 6, 2023

The courts didn’t kill Affirmative Action. A more nuanced approach will sustain it.

Don’t mourn affirmative action. Diversity in colleges will thrive without checkboxes.
  • Jessica Ye
  • July 11, 2023

Supreme Court restricts affirmative action in college admissions

Both state and private universities will no longer be allowed to consider race in their admissions process.
  • Sasha Allen
  • June 29, 2023

Here’s what the challenge to affirmative action means for UMD students

It’s hard to tell whether the ending of affirmative action would impact admissions at this university, but the elimination of the policy could have far-reaching effects.
  • Nene Narh-Mensah
  • November 17, 2022

UMD students, faculty react to Supreme Court affirmative action cases

The Supreme Court agreed to hear two affirmative action cases on Jan. 24.
  • Nene Narh-Mensah
  • February 11, 2022

Affirmative action is under attack from the Trump administration. Colleges must fight back.

Affirmative action is imperfect, but it's the best tool we have right now.
  • Laura Phillips-Alvarez
  • October 22, 2020

Asian Americans need to start talking about anti-Black racism in their communities

The model minority myth perpetuates anti-Black racism among Asian Americans.
  • Kevin Hu
  • June 23, 2020

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