HEARD AT CORNELL | Cornell’s future admissions policy
Heard at Cornell is a column that regularly quotes important statements from Cornellians. This excerpt is taken from Pollack’s statement on the affirmative action case.
Heard at Cornell is a column that regularly quotes important statements from Cornellians. This excerpt is taken from Pollack’s statement on the affirmative action case.
Pollack promised compliance from the university; however, her email strongly implied that Cornell would be looking for ways to continue its race-based policies.
Racial discrimination in college admissions has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Now is the time for unity and levelheaded conversation about the best way forward for Cornell.
Cornell relied upon TJ’s highly selective admissions policy to vet students for freshman admissions.
Ford said, “Diversity has come to define the national, and even the global, discussion of racial justice… Diversity is not the same as racial justice. Instead, it is a substitute for racial justice… I am worried that diversity has made justice seem redundant to some Americans.”
Jacobson argued that we should “stop obsessing over something so vaguely and inconsistently defined like race.”
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