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Enrollment for Black and Latino students dropped at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the first class formed after the Supreme Court found race-conscience admissions in colleges unconstitutional. The university’s admissions department on Wednesday released its first-year class profile, showing a sharp drop in its Black student population. About 5%...

MIT's Black student enrollment drops significantly after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling

Top officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have blamed last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision barring race-conscious admissions for lowering diversity in the institution’s incoming class compared to cohorts of recent years. Of MIT’s 1,102 incoming first-year students, around 16% said they are Black, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific...

MIT blames Supreme Court decision for decreased diversity in incoming class

The Independent

 The first class of incoming students at elite university MIT since last year’s Supreme Court ruling outlawing race-conscious affirmative action programs has significantly fewer Black and Hispanic students, and more Asian ones, according to newly released data on the class of 2028. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Black enrollment declined from 15 to 5 percent compared with last year, while Hispanic and Latino enrollment fell from 16 to 11 percent. Asian student enrollment, meanwhile, grew from 40 to 47 percent this year.The numbers, the first released from an elite US university since the ruling, could give indications of how the...

Proportion of Black and Hispanic students at elite university falls by half after Supreme Court ruling

Latin Times

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has reported a significant decrease in the percentage of Black, Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander students in its incoming class of 2028, the institution's first undergraduate class admitted since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to ban affirmative action. For the class of 2028,...

Latinos admitted to MIT drop sharply in first class since Supreme Court's affirmative action ban

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Herbie J Pilato

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A majority of Black Americans have lost trust in U.S. institutions, believing these systems were intentionally designed to hold them back. These findings come from a recent Pew Research Center report, which highlights widespread perceptions of unfair treatment within the nation’s key systems. The report reveals that most Black...

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Colorado State

The educational landscape of the United States has undergone significant transformation over the past three decades, with the percentage of individuals 25 and older having earned a bachelor's degree steadily increasing since the 1990s. Nationwide, 20% of those aged at least 25 had a bachelor’s degree in 1990, while in 2021 this figure jumped to 38%. However, educational attainment varies greatly across states. Many states, such as Massachusetts, Maryland, Colorado, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, alongside 15 other states, fall above the national value of 38% in 2021. However, a total of 30 states fall beneath the national value.

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Manhattan, NY

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Five Columbia University students and graduates are seeking damages against those they say organized and backed anti-Israel encampments on campus.

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Top US college says diversity slumps after affirmative action ban

A prestigious US university has recorded a sharp fall in admissions from \"members of historically under-represented racial and ethnic groups,” following a Supreme Court decision to...

A prestigious US university has recorded a sharp fall in admissions from "members of historically under-represented racial and ethnic groups,” following a Supreme Court decision to...

Top US college says diversity slumps after affirmative action ban

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