{"id":4379,"date":"2023-07-17T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T14:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2023-07-21T15:15:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T15:15:35","slug":"featured-report-uw-madison-race-based-hiring-program-likely-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4379","title":{"rendered":"Featured: Report: UW-Madison race-based hiring program likely unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/featured-report-uw-madison-race-based-hiring-program-likely-unconstitutional\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/featured-report-uw-madison-race-based-hiring-program-likely-unconstitutional\/<\/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>(The Center Square) \u2013 Race-based admissions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may not be the only thing that could be changing.<\/p>\n<p>A new report from Center for Investigative Oversight at the Institute for Reforming Government takes a look at the university\u2019s Target of Opportunity Program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn practice, the TOP program creates a two-track system by which departments can hire \u2018diverse\u2019 candidates outside of the normal hiring process, giving the candidates a leg up over non-diverse candidates,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony LoCoco, who is IRG\u2019s head of the Center for Investigative Oversight, wrote in an op-ed at the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that using race to determine who gets into college is largely unconstitutional. He said the same theory applies to race-based hiring.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Read the full piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_bb34ae86-24d0-11ee-8ea3-7b60a6ec87be.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/featured-report-uw-madison-race-based-hiring-program-likely-unconstitutional\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Race-based admissions at the University&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}