Obama administration urges colleges to look for ways to boost racial diversity

Dec. 5, 2011
Focusing on socioeconomics might enable higher-education institutions to achieve more diversity

From The New York Times: The Obama administration is urging colleges and universities to get creative in improving racial diversity at their campuses. New guidelines issued by the Departments of Justice and Education have replaced a 2008 document that essentially warned colleges and universities against considering race at all. Instead, the new guidelines suggest that institutions use other criteria — students’ socioeconomic profiles, residential instability, the hardships they have overcome.

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