The legacy admissions debate.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Legacy admissions. This week, the United States Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona suggested that the Supreme's Court's decision to strike down affirmative action could lead to axing legacy admissions, the practice of giving priority to the children of alumni.
Separately, a civil rights group called Lawyers for Civil Rights is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair advantage to mostly white alumni. The NAACP joined the civil rights complaint, asking 1,500 colleges and universities to end legacy admissions.
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| 0:44.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get |
| 0:55.4 | views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. And on today's episode, we're going to be talking about legacy |
| 1:04.4 | admissions, which are now very much at the forefront of some debate after the Supreme Court's |
| 1:09.9 | ruling on affirmative action last month. Actually, I guess it was at the end of some debate after the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action |
| 1:11.3 | last month. Actually, I guess it was at the end of June now. We're going to talk about exactly |
| 1:16.1 | what this debate is, what's going on, some of the latest news around it. Before we jump in, |
| 1:21.6 | first a heads up and a reminder that we are having our event, which is now tomorrow night. |
| 1:27.5 | I'm getting nervous, getting excited, very pumped to bring the Tango experience live to the |
| 1:32.7 | stage in Philadelphia. |
| 1:34.1 | Also a special shout out to Axios, Philadelphia, who covered tomorrow's live event |
| 1:38.4 | with a feature piece. |
| 1:39.8 | There is a link to that in today's episode description. |
| 1:42.6 | A quick note, if you are coming to the event |
| 1:44.4 | tomorrow night and you bought VIP tickets, the doors open at 6 p.m. Eastern for you for a meet |
| 1:50.0 | and greet and pre-show hangout. If you bought general admissions tickets, the doors open at 7. We |
| 1:55.2 | encourage people to get there. When doors open, the show starts at 8. There'll be drinks and food |
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