FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Rudy Gersten
Wednesday April 6, 2022
(703) 442-0066
(Falls Church, VA) Today, the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) released a new report on attitudes towards racial preferences in college admissions. Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in University of California Regents v. Bakke (1978), the use of race as a factor in college admissions has roiled public opinion.
Dr. Althea Nagai, Senior Research Fellow at CEO, examines data from a recent Pew Research Center survey on racial and ethnic issues that shows considerable discomfort with using race to determine who should be admitted to college. Overwhelmingly, Americans of all races believe grades, test scores, community service, and even athletics and legacy status should be given more weight than race or sex in admissions. Some 62 percent of blacks, 66 percent of Hispanics, and 58 percent of Asians believe race should not be a factor in admission at all.
This analysis is particularly timely given the pending cases before the Supreme Court alleging diversity admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina illegally discriminate against Asian students.
Dr. Nagai will present her findings during a webinar sponsored by the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency Project on Race and Sex on today, Wednesday, April 6th, at noon ET. She will be joined by Theodore Johnson, Senior Fellow and Director of the Fellows Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, who will respond to her analysis. The program will be moderated by Linda Chavez, Chair of CEO. Register here for the webinar.
The Center for Equal Opportunity, founded in 1995, is a national, nonprofit research and educational organization that studies issues related to civil rights, bilingual education, and assimilation.
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