A group of university presidents and immigration activists said Wednesday that colleges should turn to immigration to pursue their diversity goals as they struggle with the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down affirmative action in school admissions.
A group of university presidents and immigration rights activists said Wednesday that colleges should turn to immigration to pursue their diversity goals as they struggle with the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down affirmative action in school admissions.
That means colleges can use immigration markers as a way to bolster minority enrollment without explicitly looking at race, said the researchers from the American Immigration Council, theand the Presidents’ Alliance for Higher Education and Immigration, which is a coalition of college and university leaders.
Some advocates have seized on that idea, but immigration also could serve as a proxy for diversity, the researchers suggested.Hispanics account for 44% of students from immigrant families, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders comprise 24%, and Black students represent 13%. “There has always been a conflict between immigration and affirmative actions, but this would be the ultimate turning that on its head and turning affirmative action almost against the group it was originally designed to help,” he said.
The number is driven largely by California, with the nation’s largest postsecondary school system, where 54% of college students are from immigrant families. In New York, Florida and New Jersey, about 45% of students come from immigrant families. In six states, at least one-third of students come from those families.
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