Ending affirmative action is having dire effects

As you'll recall, because of a decision by the despicable Trump SCOTUS majority.

Gone, too, according to Hechinger Report findings, are dozens of public-university scholarships once reserved for students from underrepresented racial groups, amounting to at least $60 million, although the total is likely much higher. Government officials in Missouri, Kentucky and Wisconsin have ordered public colleges and universities in their states to end consideration of race in scholarship programs because of the court’s ruling.

It’s not just scholarships that have disappeared, another Hechinger Report review found. Also gone or under threat of disappearing in the year and a half since the court’s decision are scores of fellowships, pipeline programs and race-based mentoring opportunities, even though they weren’t mentioned in the court’s decision.

Although several schools are reporting substantial drops in the percentage of Black students entering this fall, we are still awaiting a fuller picture of what enrollment looks like for the first class since the decision, in part because much of the data is still unreported or unverified. - Hechinger Report