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The Ever-Expanding Definition of “Diversity”
Diversity has become a goal for all sorts of institutions—but its exact meaning may depend on the ideology of the person you’re talking to.
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Majority Groups Support Assimilation—Except When They’re Not Majorities
People’s views on assimilation–adopting the ways of the majority group–are fluid and contextual, depending on the role their group occupies in a particular environment.
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Research Stands Trial
The Supreme Court recently ruled, by a 5-4 majority, that racial diversity is indeed a compelling interest of higher education. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor supported this conclusion, stating in her June 23 opinion that such
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U Mich Affirmative Action: A Case for Psychological Science
It was not quite the equivalent of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, when evolutionary science was itself in the dock, but psychological science’s credentials were in a sense on trial when scientists went to
