Showing posts with label affirmative action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label affirmative action. Show all posts
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Richard Hanania & Rob Henderson: The Rise of Wokeness and the Influence of Civil Rights Law — Manifold #39

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  Richard Hanania, Rob Henderson, and I were scheduled for a June 2023 panel as part of the University of Austin (UATX) Forbidden Courses se...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Richard Sander (UCLA Law) on the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling — Manifold #38

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  Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School. AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.  Steve and Richard discuss ...
Thursday, December 01, 2022

Anna Krylov: The Politicization of Science in Academia — Manifold #25

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  Anna I. Krylov (Russian: Анна Игоревна Крылова) is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California (USC), working in the f...
Thursday, November 03, 2022

Richard Sander on SCOTUS Oral Arguments: Affirmative Action and Discrimination against Asian Americans at Harvard and UNC (Manifold #23)

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  Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School. AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.  Sander has studied the str...
Tuesday, October 04, 2022

SAT score distributions in Michigan

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The state of Michigan required all public HS seniors to take the SAT last year (~91k out of ~107k total seniors in the state). This generate...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Harvard Veritas: interview with a recent graduate (anonymous) — Manifold Episode #18

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  The guest for this episode is a recent graduate of Harvard College, now pursuing a STEM PhD at another elite university. We have withheld ...
Thursday, March 03, 2022

Manifold Podcast #6: Richard Sander on Affirmative Action, Mismatch Theory, and Academic Freedom

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  Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School.  AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.  Sander has studied the st...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Supreme Court To Take Up Harvard, UNC Affirmative Action Case

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By coincidence, I was just in contact over the weekend with several of the people involved in the effort to end discrimination against As...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy (Kenny Xu)

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Kenny Xu is a brave young man. His new book An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocrac...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

University of California to end use of SAT and ACT

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University of California Will End Use of SAT and ACT in Admissions (NYT) This decision by the UC Regents (most of whom are political appo...
Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Report of the University of California Academic Council Standardized Testing Task Force

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The figures below are from the recently completed Report of the University of California Academic Council Standardized Testing Task Force . ...
Wednesday, October 02, 2019

Harvard Discrimination Lawsuit: Judge Burroughs on Racial Balancing and "Unhooked" Applicants

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As has been widely reported (WSJ): U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs found that Harvard’s practices were “not perfect” and could use ...
Thursday, September 05, 2019

Former Yale Law Dean on Harvard anti-Asian discrimination case: The facts are just so embarrassing to Harvard... Quotas and a climate of dishonesty

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The excerpt below is from a recent interview in the Chronicle of Higher Education . Anthony Kronman was Dean of Yale Law School from 1994...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Glenn Loury and Laurence Kotlikoff on the Harvard Trial (video)

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Glenn Loury is Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Brown University. Laurence J. Kotlikoff is a Wi...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Harvard Admissions on Trial: Enter the Statisticians

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Let's see if any other media outlets cover this very essential part of the trial -- the cross examination of each side's statist...
Monday, October 15, 2018

Harvard Admissions on Trial

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Now that the Harvard Asian American discrimination trial has started, let me share some previous correspondence with NYTimes reporters w...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Jordan Peterson: Identity Politics, IQ, Harvard and Asian admissions

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First ~9min: Trump, the US Left and Right, Identity Politics @10min: IQ @24min: Harvard and Asian admissions. "The Asians are the...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Harvard Office of Institutional Research on Discrimination Against Asian-American Applicants

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Harvard's Office of Institutional Research (OIR) produced a series of internal reports on discrimination against Asian-American applican...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of Asian-Americans on subjective personality evaluation

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Harvard and Students For Fair Admissions (SFFA), which is suing Harvard over discrimination against Asian-American applicants, have relea...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Too Many Asian Americans: Affirmative Discrimination in Elite College Admissions

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An updated analysis of discrimination against Asian-American applicants at elite universities. Figures below are from the paper. See also Th...