06/29/2024

Race was Once Factored into College Admissions

Now, it's intentionally ignored

Last June, when the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) overturned race-conscious college admissions, Adrienne Oddi and other administrators at Queens University paused their board of trustees meeting to acknowledge that their world was entering a new era.

Though Queens did not factor race into admissions decisions like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University — the schools at the center of the ruling upending 40 years of precedent — officials at the Charlotte campus knew they would have to act: Even acknowledging a student’s race in admissions discussions could now pose a degree of legal peril.

That day, Oddi, vice president of strategic enrollment and communications at Queens, published an open letter on the university's website, noting that admissions officials had lost an "essential tool in our tool kit by losing a defining piece of each student's story — of each student's identity."

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Post.