Op-Ed: A year after the Supreme Court’s historic affirmative action ruling, MIT’s drop in student diversity provides a cautionary tale

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Professor Julie J. Park wrote an opinion piece for the Hechinger Report analyzing how universities are reimagining their admissions process post the Supreme Court affirmative action decision. Namely, Park finds MIT’s choice to abstain from collecting race, or ethnicity data in its application cycle concerning for student diversity in the long term.

Collecting applicant demographic data on race is still incredibly important. Such data provides insight into what sorts of outreach strategies are needed, as well as information critical to understanding how students from historically underrepresented groups are reacting to the Supreme Court ruling.

Read in Hechinger Report.

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