In his latest piece for the Monthly, legal scholar Rick Kahlenberg wrote about the College Board’s shameful termination of “Landscape,” a college recruiting tool designed to identify promising students from low-income communities, regardless of their race. Rick called it “the worst kind of capitulation” to Trump.
What’s significant about Rick’s stance is that he’s among the nation’s most prominent opponents of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. In fact, he testified against the practice in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard—the landmark Supreme Court case that made racial preferences in college admissions illegal.
Rick argues that race-neutral admissions policies are not only acceptable but should even be encouraged. The result would be more diversity, but on terms that Americans believe fair. Trump, on the other hand, is waging war on diversity itself.
