MERKLEY, BOWMAN INTRODUCE BILL TO END LEGACY ADMISSION PREFERENCES AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Wednesday, February 2, 2022 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16) today introduced the Fair College Admission ...
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Senator Merkley (D-OR) and Rep Bowman (D-NY) plan to reintroduce the Fair College Admissions for Students Act which would ban legacy admissions https://www.merkley.senate.gov/news/press-releases/merkley-bowman-introduce-bill-to-end-legacy-admission-preferences-at-colleges-and-universities-22 ...
In oral arguments last October, several conservative justices had floated removing legacy preferences as a race-neutral alternative for Harvard’s admissions process. President Joe Biden also took aim at legacy admissions in a press conference following the decision, announcing that he ...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/affirmative-action-white-people-legacy-college-admissions-renewed-100567037 In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that removes race from the admissions process, colleges are coming under renewed pressure to put an end to legacy preferences, the practice of ...