{"id":14325,"date":"2011-06-21T03:29:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T03:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14325"},"modified":"2011-08-08T05:12:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T05:12:31","slug":"multiracial-students-and-the-evolution-of-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14325","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial students and the evolution of affirmative action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/hlpronline.com\/2011\/06\/multiracial-students-and-the-evolution-of-affirmative-action\/\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial students and the evolution of affirmative action<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hlpronline.com\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Law &amp; Policy Review<\/a><br \/>\n2011-06-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hlpronline.com\/author\/jwillis\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jay Willis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reduced to its elements, affirmative action is a relatively straightforward concept.\u00a0 Colleges and universities consider an applicant\u2019s racial and ethnic background to ensure that they enroll sufficient numbers of students from traditionally underrepresented groups. But schools are now grappling with new Department of Education regulations that, for the first time, allow students to identify themselves as members of two (or more) ethnic groups on their college and graduate school applications.\u00a0 The initiative was intended to recognize the diversity of the national student body and to ensure that no student had to pigeonhole him or herself into one neatly checked box.\u00a0 But the multitude of boxes suddenly available to each applicant introduces an unwelcome element of uncertainty for campus officials composing the incoming class of 2015.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSay a mixed-race student self-identifies as both African-American and white on his college application; the former group traditionally receives preferential treatment in affirmative action programs, while the latter does not.\u00a0 Under the new reporting guidelines, how should the student be counted in terms of his contribution to the school\u2019s diversity?\u00a0 Is he African-American, and if so, does he somehow count less when calculating these statistics than does someone with two African-American parents?\u00a0 Is he white, and if so, is he less white such that he counts less toward the school\u2019s burgeoning white population?\u00a0 Is there some formula by which the school could count him as both?\u00a0 Or is he a member of neither category such that he and other multiracial students must be reclassified altogether?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/hlpronline.com\/2011\/06\/multiracial-students-and-the-evolution-of-affirmative-action\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiracial students and the evolution of affirmative action Harvard Law &amp; Policy Review 2011-06-17 Jay Willis Reduced to its elements, affirmative action is a relatively straightforward concept.\u00a0 Colleges and universities consider an applicant\u2019s racial and ethnic background to ensure that they enroll sufficient numbers of students from traditionally underrepresented groups. But schools are now grappling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2895,1467,26,20],"tags":[6613,6614],"class_list":["post-14325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-campus-life","category-law","category-politics","category-usa","tag-harvard-law-policy-review","tag-jay-willis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}