Simmons: junking legacy admissions could hurt diverse colleges

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By Paul Basken

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Simmons: junking legacy admissions could hurt diverse colleges

Leading civil rights figure in US higher education questions assertions by Supreme Court justices that ending legacy advantages could be a reasonable response to their expected ban on affirmative action

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Simmons: junking legacy admissions could hurt diverse colleges

Leading civil rights figure in US higher education questions assertions by Supreme Court justices that ending legacy advantages could be a reasonable response to their expected ban on affirmative action

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US Supreme Court signals end to affirmative action as trial opens

Why do elite colleges allow alumni’s children a foot in the door?

Harvard trial spotlight shifts to alumni admissions advantages

Universities ‘should be chastened by bigotry among well-educated’

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Prairie View A&M University

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