Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (#AAPI) Writing in Support of Affirmative Action | #NotYourWedge #AAPIforAffAction
This post was first published in November 2014. However, with resurgent interest in affirmative action and the Asian American &…
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BREAKING: Asian American Students File to Join Harvard Lawsuit and Defend Affirmative Action
Advancing Justice – Los Angeles (AAAJ-LA) held a press conference moments ago to announce that lawyers with the group will represent two…
Anti-Affirmative Action Group Files Another Complaint — This Time Against Cornell and Columbia
Yesterday, guest writer Felix Huang (@Brkn_Yllw_Lns) wrote an incredible essay for this blog suggesting that in talking to Chinese American…
Supreme Court Reaffirms Race-Conscious Affirmative Action in College Admissions
The Supreme Court handed down their long-anticipated decision on Fisher v University of Texas II yesterday, eight years after Abigail Fisher (who…
150+ AAPI Civil Rights Organizations Join National Open Letter in Support of Affirmative Action
Less than one week after an Asian American group (comprised of predominantly Chinese American organizations) announced that they had filed a complaint…
Asian American Group Files Anti-Affirmative Action Complaint Against Yale, Dartmouth, Brown: What You Need To Know
I can’t believe we’re dealing with this again. Less than a year after the Department of Education dismissed a frivolous…
Asian Americans Must Reject Being Used as a Wedge by Those Who Oppose Affirmative Action
Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for over an hour with regards to Fisher II, the second hearing of…
Dept. of Education Dismisses Complaint Filed Against Harvard By anti-Affirmative Action Asian American Groups
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, the Department of Education yesterday dismissed an administrative complaint filed in May against…
Espenshade: Data are not Proof of anti-Asian Discrimination | #Edu4All
Thomas Espenshade Since the publication in 2009 of his influential study (with co-author Alexandria Walton Radford) on admission patterns in…
Asian American US Civil Rights Commissioners Issue Statement on Harvard Affirmative Action Complaint | #Edu4All
Today, a group of between 40 and 50 Asian American organizations will hold two coordinated press conferences in Washington DC and…
135+ AANHPI Organizations Come Together In Support of Affirmative Action | #Edu4All
Last year, California was poised to return affirmative action to the state’s institutions of higher education via a state constitutional amendment…
How holistic review in college admissions works, and why we need it | #IAmNotYourWedge
Here’s a thought experiment: let’s say you need to buy a car. Now, let’s say you go to the car…