Cenk Uygur
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Trump Targeting Affirmative Action
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August 3, 2017
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11:57Now PlayingTrump’s Justice Department is using it’s own Civil Rights Division to go after Affirmative Action. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks, discuss affirmative action. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“The news that broke last night that the Trump Administration would take a fresh look at affirmative action and potentially sue colleges and universities over admissions decisions perceived to discriminate against applicants based on their race renewed a long-simmering debate over who gets access to the nation’s elite colleges.
Admissions policies that take race into consideration are most relevant at campuses where there are far more applicants than there are spots in the freshman class. There are about 200 colleges in the United States out of some 5,000 institutions that accept fewer than half the students who apply. To put that into perspective, those colleges enroll fewer than 10 percent of the nation’s undergraduates.
Despite their small slice of the market overall, these institutions, from Harvard University to Amherst College to the University of Michigan, play an outsized role in American higher education. It’s not because the education is so much better at those schools; it’s because of the unparalleled network students connect to, through the parents of their classmates, alumni and eventually when they become alumni themselves. That’s why admissions to these places is so prized by many students and parents.”
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