US to end race-based university admissions: what now for diversity in science?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "So, affirmative action is just another data point in that line of a historical trend."
54% : "Affirmative action was the only tool that helped us bring in students that weren't from wealthy families or wealthy institutions," Flores says.
50% : The reason that some US universities have adopted race-conscious admissions -- sometimes referred to as affirmative action -- is to address centuries of racism and exclusion in the United States.
41% : "The attacks on affirmative action are really attacks against efforts to remedy past harm against Black people," Welbeck says.

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