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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Letters to the Editor

Mend affirmative action, don’t end it

Northwestern University. (Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

Kudos to Nereida Moreno, whose rigorously researched article eloquently captured the negative impact a Supreme Court decision against affirmative action could have not just nationally but also locally in Chicagoland’s public and private universities.

What tends to be generally absent from the national affirmative action debates, whether across particular campuses or during legal court hearings, is the fact that university professors — tenure-track assistant professors, associate professors and especially full professors — are far from being the mirror image of the 21st century ethnic and racial demographics of our society and of the students we all teach.

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