by lindaoppenheim | Oct 15, 2018 | Opinion
In light of the lawsuit challenging Harvard’s affirmative action policies, claiming that the university discriminates against Asian-American applicants, novelist Lisa Ko notes that “the model-minority myth [has been] leveraged by both whites and Asians to...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 24, 2017 | Article
“Even after decades of affirmative action, black and Hispanic students are more underrepresented at the nation’s top colleges and universities than they were 35 years ago, according to a New York Times analysis.” Click here to read entire article.
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 29, 2015 | Documents
This paper presents new and surprising findings on the relationship between race and SAT scores. The findings are based on the population of California residents who applied for admission to the University of California from 1994 through 2011, a sample of over 1.1...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 29, 2015 | Opinion, Video
“Those with less opportunity are fighting for position, trying to find their place, but those with privilege are hitting triples, when they were already on third base.” This succinct description of white privilege came from the video The Black Bruins by...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 26, 2015 | Article
“Affirmative action was the political backdrop of African-American student life on campus in the 1980s, with some students and alumni questioning its place. In the 1990s, the University began examining race relations on campus, while both the Alumni Council and...
