🎧 Listen: In today’s episode of The Journal podcast, dougbelkin explains the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action in college admissions, and laurenweberWSJ spells out its potential impacts on corporate America
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Doug Belkin: This is a watershed moment for higher education. So around the country this morning, college presidents are on the phone with their attorneys and their admissions directors to figure out what they can do. There's a tremendous amount of focus on what's happening right now.
Doug Belkin: So Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the decision, and he was joined by Clarence Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. The Court's three liberals dissented, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Doug Belkin: Universities, especially selective universities, are kind of the sorting hats for American culture. Eight US presidents went to Harvard University. That's not an accident. Colleges decide who the best and the brightest are. They are the gatekeepers to the American meritocracy. So if you have Harvard or Yale stamped on your resume, that will open doors for the rest of your life.
Doug Belkin: In places where states have decreed affirmative action can no longer be used, like California, like Michigan, schools have become whiter, they've become less diverse. And so the concern is that that's what's going to happen at the Ivy League schools and these selective schools. And since they are the gateway to the sort of corner offices and the power structure of this country, they carry a lot of weight.
Doug Belkin: It is not as effective as using race. Using class as a proxy for race is not as effective as using race. Lauren Weber: So they made the argument that they supported race-conscious admissions because they want to ensure that there's a future workforce available to them that is qualified, that is well-educated, that has access to the best educations out there. Their argument was that there's a ton of research out there that shows that diverse companies, diverse organizations, do better financially. They're more innovative. They're more creative. Their share prices are higher.
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