race-based admissions

Gettysburg College Effort to Enroll ‘20% Students of Color’ Prompts Federal Complaint

Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on April 30, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. A civil rights complaint has been filed against Gettysburg College for its apparent policy to seek to enroll “20% domestic students of color” […]

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California’s Insanity—Legislators Push Admission Priority for Descendants of Slavery

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”—Thomas Paine Race peddlers are at the scheme of reparations again. This time, they are playing the game in higher education, hoping to get progressive government agencies to legislate racial preferences in college admissions. Will they succeed? California […]

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Just Say No to Discrimination

The release of data on incoming freshmen this fall was watched keenly in light of last year’s Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard decision that effectively outlawed race-based affirmative action policies in college admissions. As the data have been released, the picture is mixed. Some schools have seen the expected results: a larger proportion of […]

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Why Are Race-Based Scholarships and Programs Suddenly Under Attack?

Editor’s Note: The following is a short excerpt from an article originally published by The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on August 5, 2024. With edits to fit MTC’s style, it is crossposted here with permission. For nearly five decades, American universities systematically discriminated against white and Asian Americans. Quotas, “holistic review processes,” and “factors” […]

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Will SCOTUS Back Harvard’s Affirmative Action Win?

A few days ago, Judge Allison Burroughs, appointed by President Obama to the Federal District of Massachusetts, issued her decision in Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard College in which the plaintiffs claimed that affirmative action preferences awarded to blacks and Hispanics amounted to illegal discrimination against Asians. It’s a doozy, by which I mean […]

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