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#Bestof2022: Waiting for SCOTUS. 2/2: Asking SCOTUS to answer Affirmative Action's history and unknowns. @RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#Bestof2022: Waiting for SCOTUS. 2/2: Asking SCOTUS to answer Affirmative Action's history and unknowns.
@RichardAEpstein, @HooverInst

https://www.hoover.org/research/affirmative-action-showdown

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0:00.0

This is CBS I in the world.

0:06.3

I'm John Batsworth, Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, writing of the case

0:11.3

that right now is before the Supreme Court.

0:14.1

The question asked by two different cases.

0:16.8

One, the students for fair admissions at Versus Harvard and one, students for fair admissions

0:23.3

versus the University of North Carolina, turning on the Supreme Court case, grew to Versus

0:28.4

Bullins are turning on Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

0:32.6

However, Richard also introduces the fact that this language has been current in academic

0:40.1

hiring for some time.

0:41.3

I can't date it, but I could say that it was a revelation to me, these guidelines, Richard

0:46.7

links in his piece to the University of California at Berkeley.

0:50.6

The issue is diversity, equity, and inclusion.

0:53.5

And as I understand it, Richard, in order to be successful in an application to join

0:59.4

these faculties, it is not only your research, say we're dealing with STEM, the science inquiries,

1:07.5

not only your research, but you also must submit a document, a paper, a record.

1:13.3

I'm not sure what it looks like because you will be judged or measured on the basis

1:21.2

of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

1:23.9

So that's been in place for some time, is that correct, Richard?

1:27.1

Well, it's certainly for the last four or five years, but the momentum on this is getting

1:31.3

much more strong.

1:32.7

And law schools and all, so for example, putting critical race theories and required subject

1:38.3

in the curriculum where the viewers, you have to do two things.

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