against Harvard, Lawyers for Civil Rights said it was challenging the"discriminatory practice of giving preferential treatment in the admissions process to applicants with familial ties to wealthy donors and alumni.""This preferential treatment overwhelmingly goes to white applicants and harms efforts to diversify color," added Michael Kippins, litigation fellow at Lawyers for Civil Rights.
The NAACP called on more than 1,600 U.S. public and private colleges and universities to commit to increasing the representation of historically underrepresented students and end the practice of legacy admissions. "That signifies a huge stride toward future insurance that every student, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or socioeconomic status, has an equal opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive at a higher education institution," Ivory Toldson, director of education innovation and research at the NAACP, said in a statement.
"There's no doubt that the legacy advantage is mostly a white entitlement," said Alvin Tillery, a political science professor and director of Northwestern University's Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy. However, these preferences are not based explicitly on race, which distinguishes the practice from the overt race-conscious admissions programs that were recently rejected by the Supreme Court, noted Don Harris, associate dean and equity, diversity and inclusion liaison at Temple University School of Law.
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