Politics & Diversity

Matters of Mismatch: The Debate Over Affirmative Action’s Effectiveness

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The debate over affirmative action and race preferences in university admissions is among the most bitter and intractable in American politics. In principle, affirmative action is a straightforward case of compensatory justice. Black and Hispanic students, supporters claim, suffer from structural injustices that may cause them to perform worse than they would if they were … Read more

Latinas Leading the Way

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“I never really questioned the fact that I was going to go to college. I didn’t really think there were other options.” For Gaby Díaz Quiñones ’17, the idea of attending college was always assumed and influenced a great deal by her mother’s completion of a bachelor’s degree, she told the HPR. Díaz Quiñones’s circumstance—being … Read more