The Boston Globe published an overview today of the impact the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision had on universities and colleges in Massachusetts. What the data shows is a general trend toward fewer black students and slightly more Asian students, exactly as the plaintiffs in the case predicted.
The share of Black first-year students enrolled at 11 of the most competitive schools in Massachusetts dropped, on average, about 40 percent compared with the average of the previous two years, the Globe’s analysis found…
“It is heartbreaking,” said Anthony Abraham Jack, a Boston University professor who studies first-generation students and is a graduate of Amherst College. “It is leading to the segregation of higher education. You will see top schools get whiter and wealthier.”
Except that’s not at all what the data this year shows. On the contrary:
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