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3 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg
A focus on economic disadvantage is improving admissions for students of all races. Pedestrians walk through the gates of Harvard Yard at Harvard University. | Charles Krupa/AP Richard D. Kahlenberg is director of the American Identity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute and author of Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges, from which this essay is adapted.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg
In November 2020, with the Covid-19 pandemic raging, I took off my mask and sat down nervously in the witness stand at the federal district courthouse in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I was there to testify as an expert witness for Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a conservative group challenging racial preferences at the University of North Carolina.
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3 weeks ago | 
msnbc.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg
President Donald Trump has been attacking American universities on a host of fronts, pressuring schools to end their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, cutting National Institutes of Health research grants, and threatening to increase the endowment tax. One thing he hasn’t touched? The deeply troubling practice of legacy preferences, which provide a large admissions boost to the children of alumni.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg
President Donald Trump has been attacking American universities on a host of fronts, pressuring schools to end their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, cutting National Institutes of Health research grants, and threatening to increase the endowment tax. One thing he hasn’t touched? The deeply troubling practice of legacy preferences, which provide a large admissions boost to the children of alumni.
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1 month ago | 
slate.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg
Jurisprudence This essay has been adapted from the forthcoming book Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges. In the era of Donald Trump, many liberals understandably look back with fondness at the time when Republican moderates recognized that racial diversity strengthens institutions.
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1 month ago | 
nypost.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg
I’ve spent my career as a center-left thinker and writer, working with people like former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to help promote school integration and Keith Ellison and the late John Lewis to strengthen organized labor. So why did I agree to join a conservative group, Students for Fair Admissions, in its lawsuits against Harvard and the University of North Carolina in cases that enabled the Supreme Court to bring an end to racial preferences in 2023?
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1 month ago | 
asianamericans.einnews.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg
I’ve spent my career as a center-left thinker and writer, working with people like former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to help promote school integration and Keith Ellison and the late John Lewis to strengthen organized labor. So why did I agree to join a conservative group, Students for Fair Admissions, in its lawsuits against Harvard and the University of North Carolina in cases that enabled the Supreme Court to bring an end to racial preferences in 2023?
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg
Richard D. Kahlenberg, director of the American Identity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute, is author of the forthcoming book “Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges,” from which this column is adapted.
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1 month ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg
For almost a half century, Republican presidents consistently attacked racial preference programs rhetorically but did little to roll them back. That was true of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and even Donald Trump in his first term. Trump’s second term is different.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Richard D. Kahlenberg
Anger about inflation was a central driver of Donald Trump’s election, which is part of why housing policy will be so important in the next administration. For most Americans, housing costs represent their single biggest household expense, and those costs have been rising rapidly. What will Donald Trump and his new nominee to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, former NFL football player and Texas State legislator Scott Turner, do to address the issue? The answer is wide open.
