Notes from America with Kai Wright

Affirmative Action is About More Than Acceptance Letters

Jul 13, 2023

28:24

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Impact of the SCOTUS Ruling on Black and Brown and Indigenous Students

2min

The Function of American Higher Education

2min

The Affirmative Action Ruling and the Ruling That Limited the Student Loan Forgiveness

2min

The Supreme Court's Decisions on Affirmative Action and Student Loan Relief

2min

The Rise and Fall of Jar Jar Binks

2min

The Supreme Court's Ruling on Student Loan Relief

2min

The Impact of Race Based Affirmative Action on Admissions

2min

The Importance of Socioeconomic Status in Affirmative Action

2min

10.

How the Rulings Have Affected My Journeys Through School

2min

11.

The Importance of Talking to People

2min

12.

The Cost of Community Colleges

3min

13.

The Ripple Effects of the Affirmative Action Ruling

2min

14.

The Importance of Access to Elite Universities

2min

Everyone’s talking about affirmative action at elite universities. But they educate fewer than 5 percent of students seeking advanced degrees. So why should the other 95 percent care?

Kai wants to know about the future of equity in higher education. So he talks to:

-Dominique Baker, Southern Methodist University Associate Professor of Education Policy.

-Imani Perry, Harvard University Professor of African and African American Studies, and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

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