Data on the demographic composition of the college freshman class of 2028 are beginning to come in, the first to reflect the changing legal environment since last year’s Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard and the related University of North Carolina Supreme Court case that essentially outlawed affirmative action in admission practices.
Arguably, a collegiate War Against Males proceeds apace; will campus men soon seek protection under the Endangered Species Act?
Actually, a few populous states like California, Michigan, and Washington had already outlawed affirmative action in their state universities, providing some insight into what to expect following the Supreme Court decision. The most watched statistic is the admission of black students. At UCLA and the University of Michigan even before the Supreme Court decision, only about six percent of new freshmen were blacks, a group constituting about 13 percent…
