January 23, 2015 Continued from last week… In Cashin’s article on affirmative action published in the PRRAC journal, she concedes that, “Fewer African Americans may enter elite institutions under an affirmative action system based on structural disadvantage rather than under race-based affirmative action.” However, she argued that the social costs of racial-conscious […]
Scholar Says Race-Neutral Approach Needed for Affirmative Action
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent January 16, 2015 Sheryll Cashin, a professor of law at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. advocates for “place-based” affirmative action policies in education. (Freddie Allen/NNPA) WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — In the wake of unrelenting law suits seeking to abolish affirmative action coupled with nearly half […]