The Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling gave conservatives the go-ahead to hack away at campus diversification efforts, writes _Jahan.
all limit higher education from becoming more amenable to students — particularly nonwhite students.
Now it appears Republicans are setting their sights on another tool used to foster campus diversity: minority scholarship programs. On Thursday, the Republican speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly suggested he’ll move to ban grants designated for minority undergraduate students. The speaker, Robin Vos, responded to a tweet claiming a minority scholarship program designated for students who are Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or of Laotian, Vietnamese or Cambodian descent amounted to “discrimination.”seemed to embody the conservative fervor to block racial minority groups from higher education opportunities.
Vos has also been a vocal opponent of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, referring to such programs within the University of Wisconsin System as
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