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Currents 045: Dorian Abbot on Protecting Academic Freedom

The Jim Rutt Show

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We value diversity, just like the people proposing d i. But we want to do it in a way that doesn't involve discrimination against certain groups of people. And so one way you could state that is that we want a fundamental focus on k 12 education, not on late stage discrimination. We recommended stopping legacy and athletic scholarships and admissions which go predominantly white candidates. Since we agree that diversity is a relevant thing that universities should think about, we said that the waytha t they should do this is by investing an education. In that article, it short, we just sketch out the dream, and everyone should feel free to try to,. using those goals, developed their own system.

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