My U.S. Civil Rights Commission colleague Gail Heriot and I sent a letter to Senator Bill Cassidy, chairman of the Senate HELP Committee, and Representative Tim Walberg, chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, regarding a conflict between the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and college accreditation standards that include diversity mandates.
We urge that the Higher Education Act be amended so that “accreditors are prohibited from pressuring individual colleges and universities into engaging in illegal racial preferences.” Given that much of academia is strongly inclined to engage in such preferences, not much pressure is required.
Battling ever-mutating racial preferences is akin to playing Whac-A-Mole. The imperative among our so-called elites to engage in racial discrimination through elaborately engineered preferences remains extraordinary.