Trump to rescind race guidelines in college admissions: WSJ

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



JULY 3, 2018 / 8:32 AM / UPDATED 29 MINUTES AGO

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to revoke guidelines that encourage considering race in the college admissions process as a way of promoting diversity, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

The guidelines, put in place in the Obama administration in 2011 and 2016, put forth legal recommendations that Trump officials contend “mislead schools to believe that legal forms of affirmative action are simpler to achieve than the law allows,” the Journal reported, citing two people familiar with the plans. Trump administration officials plan to argue the guidelines go beyond what the Supreme Court has decided on the issue.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled universities may use affirmative action to help minority applicants get into college. Conservatives have said such programs can hurt white people and Asian-Americans.

The Justice Department under Republican President Donald Trump has been investigating a complaint by more than 60 Asian-American organizations that say Harvard University’s policies are discriminatory because they limit the acceptance of Asian-Americans.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-education-race/trump-to-rescind-race-guidelines-in-college-admissions-wsj-idUSKBN1JT1HO

[bitterross]

1. I love how they throw in Asian-Americans to seem they're fighting injustice

Such total BS. They don't give a shit about yellow, black or brown people. Only white ones.

They're throwing in Asian-Americans in an effort to seem like they're actually fighting some injustice.

[MichMan]

5. Do you think there should be any limits on admissions for a specific group like Asian American's ?

I would think the beneficiaries of such limits would more likely be white than anything else

[MadDAsHell]

10. The lawsuit against Harvard is bought by Asian-Americans, not whites. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Therefore, allowing Admissions to choose rich white prospective alumni who will fondly rememeber

the school via donations rather other candidates with a greater GPA or who deserve a chance to a quality higher education, or both.

I'm going to re-read Powell's Bakke decision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_Univ._of_Cal._v._Bakke

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. 99% of Trump's "accomplishments" are undoing Obama's legacy.

Speaking of legacies, where do less-than-stellar students who are admitted as "legacies" of alumni fit into the discrimination equation?

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "students who are admitted as "legacies" of alumni"

Like Jr., Ivanka, and Tiffany at University of Pennsylvania.

[Initech]

6. Trump and the republicans think of diversity the same way Ron Burgundy does.

[truthisfreedom]

7. Notice how nothing 45 does is constructive. It's all destructive,

Insulting, hurtful, negative. Nothing creative, no progress, only regression.

[lunatica]

8. They better lower the academic standards so Trump's base can get in

Maybe even making reading not a requirement.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Not enough wypipo getting in I guess