{"id":4213,"date":"2023-07-10T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2023-07-13T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T19:10:00","slug":"featured-affirmative-action-on-campus-goes-beyond-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4213","title":{"rendered":"Featured: Affirmative Action on Campus Goes Beyond Admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/featured-affirmative-action-on-campus-goes-beyond-admissions\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/featured-affirmative-action-on-campus-goes-beyond-admissions\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/In-The-News-Anthony-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" data-type=\"paragraph\">The Supreme Court\u2019s decision in\u00a0<em class=\"css-i6hrxa-Italic e1ofiv6m0\" data-type=\"emphasis\">Students for Fair Admissions\u00a0<\/em>v. Harvard reaffirmed the court\u2019s view that race-based governmental decision-making as a general matter is hardly ever permissible. Universities hoping to escape constitutional scrutiny won\u2019t be able merely to change their admissions practices. Affirmative action in faculty hiring is the next frontier in Equal Protection Clause litigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" data-type=\"paragraph\">The University of Wisconsin-Madison, the flagship of the UW system, proudly operates the so-called Target of Opportunity Program (TOP). It allows academic departments to obtain waivers from the requirement to post job positions publicly and instead hire \u201cdiverse\u201d candidates directly. The university provides the irresistible incentive of salary funding for approved hires. Public records of internal TOP requests obtained by my group, the Institute for Reforming Government, show blatant, widespread and pernicious racial classification of faculty applicants that is difficult to reconcile with the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" data-type=\"paragraph\">Similar to Harvard\u2019s and the University of North Carolina\u2019s admissions policies, the actions of several UW departments approximated racial balancing, which the court called \u201cpatently unconstitutional.\u201d The university\u2019s business school supported its proposal for TOP funding with a helpful chart showing faculty race by percentage with categories such as \u201cAsian,\u201d \u201cWhite,\u201d and \u201cAfrican American\u201d and expressed a desire that faculty and student racial diversification proceed \u201cat the same rate.\u201d The school of medicine and public health argued that a targeted hire was necessary in part because \u201cthere are only 4.2% of dermatologists of Hispanic origin compared with 16.3% in the general American population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Read the full piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/affirmative-action-on-campus-goes-beyond-admissions-race-college-students-diversity-cdc99db6?mod=Searchresults_pos1&amp;page=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/featured-affirmative-action-on-campus-goes-beyond-admissions\/ The Supreme Court\u2019s decision in\u00a0Students for Fair Admissions\u00a0v. 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