PROFESSOR: Affirmative Action Isn't Helping The Right People [View all]
Indiana University Maurer School of Law professor Kevin Brown supports considering race as a factor in admissions but says there is a problem in how affirmative action is implemented.
Colleges are giving fewer and fewer spots to "the traditional African-American" students with two black parents, whose ancestors endured discrimination, while giving more spots to black immigrants, Brown told Business Insider.
Black immigrants, who started coming to the U.S. in larger numbers after the 1970s, tend to have higher incomes that non-immigrant blacks, which leads to stronger college applications. Now there's a disproportionately high number of black immigrants at elite colleges. One study found 40% of the black freshman at Ivy League institutions were immigrants even though that population only accounted for 18% of black 18- and 19-year-olds in the U.S.
Brown says colleges should make a special effort to include "traditional African Americans" as well as immigrants.
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