Posted on 04/10/2019 5:22:57 AM PDT by reaganaut1
A prominent Texas medical school will stop considering race or ethnicity in deciding whether to admit applicants, as part of an agreement with the Education Department’s civil rights office.
The president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center signed the agreement in February, 14 years after the department began investigating a complaint filed by an anti-affirmative action group. The agreement is the first of its kind for the Education Department under Secretary Betsy DeVos, and comes as the Trump administration continues its hard turn against the use of race in admissions.
Roger Clegg, general counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity, which filed the original complaint, said on Tuesday that the agreement could pave the way for similar actions at other schools.
“It shows that the Trump administration is serious about enforcing the civil rights laws in a way that protects the rights of all Americans to be free from discrimination,” Mr. Clegg said. “The more schools that stop using racial preferences, the harder it will be for other schools to continue using racial preferences.”
Affirmative action programs are under renewed scrutiny in courts and by federal authorities. Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are both facing court challenges to their admissions procedures that could reach the Supreme Court. The Trump administration is investigating allegations of discrimination against Asian-American applicants at Harvard and Yale.
The administration has made clear its position on the use of race in admissions, abandoning Obama-era policies that argued for the “compelling interests” of diversity to college campuses and encouraging race-neutral admissions methods.
Jin Hee Lee, senior deputy director of litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., said the Texas Tech agreement was part of a broader pattern of chipping away at affirmative action.
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Good. Let this be the first of many dominoes to fall.
This ought to get Trump more of the Jewish vote. And, the Asian vote, and the white vote, generally. And, of course, if you’re for meritocracy, it’s the thing to do.
But, will anyone other than affirmative action groups notice?
I predict Blacks getting accepted drops heavily.
Well that’s good but the elephant in the room is sex based admissions.
That's impossible. Trump is a racist who hates brown people..
"Affirmative action" is racism pure and simple. We shouldn't be "chipping away" at it, we should nuke it.
I predict they’ll triple the number of football and basketball recruits they “need”.
LOL
My law school admission used GPA plus LSAT score, no interview, just a list and the highest 125 got acceptance letters.
“14 years after the department began investigating a complaint filed by an anti-affirmative action group.“
14 years. Glad to see this case was settled so quickly. (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
L
Ping!
But the ones who make it will be in a much better position to take advantage of it.
Excellent!
I guess you need to have some kind of objective criteria, but that, to my mind, sounds like a formula for getting a large percentage of conformists and savants.
Good, that’s how it should be.
I have no problem working with all kinds of people, but affirmative action breeds anger/distrust.
I predict their private practice job offers triple.
Why is that?
Or people who test well on the cognitive criteria to be lawyers. The problem inherent in it is actually this: you can’t predict who is going to use the training to be serious and who is going to steal.
Agree. Undergrad GPA plus MCAT score should be the deciding factor plus what field the degree was in. These racial quotas have kept many much more qualified young adults from becoming the MD, which they worked hard to become. The same is true of our military academies now. Seems they have gender slots too.
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