www.ozy.com Open in urlscan Pro
13.225.221.25  Public Scan

Form analysis
2 forms found in the DOM

<form class="sc-dkIXZx hvVZyZ">
  <h4 class="sc-XhUvE dOYKbK">Sign up for the weekly newsletter!</h4>
  <div class="sc-ikPAEB gzCcjx">
    <div class="sc-tYqdw ebhone">
      <div class="sc-bsipwG gcHoFR"><input type="email" name="emailAddress" placeholder="Enter your email address" value="" class=" js-bound"></div>
    </div>
    <div class="mobile-none tablet-landscape-block"><button type="submit" class="sc-gsTEea bNCaph">SIGN UP</button></div>
    <div class="sc-xyEDr cBxcwV mobile-block tablet-landscape-none"><button type="submit" class="sc-gsTEea bNCaph"><i class="sc-hKgJUU dNCKzl Symbol Symbol--left-arrow-white Symbol--left-arrow-white-dims"> </i></button></div>
  </div>
</form>

<form id="adl-user-report-form" novalidate="">
  <div style="padding:0; margin: 0 0 0;">
    <div style="width:100%;display:none;height: 35px;line-height:35px;font-size:13px;padding:0 12px;color:white;background-color:#FF3860;border-radius:2px;margin-bottom:10px; " id="adl-category-error">Please make a selection.</div>
    <label style="display: block;line-height: 0; font-size: 16px; margin: 15px 0 15px;">
      <input style="margin:0 8px 0 0;vertical-align: middle;transform: translateY(-0.15em);-webkit-appearance: radio;box-sizing: border-box;" type="radio" name="category" value="Plays Sound" required=""> Plays sound </label>
    <label style="display: block;line-height: 0; font-size: 16px; margin: 15px 0 15px;">
      <input style="margin:0 8px 0 0;vertical-align: middle;transform: translateY(-0.15em);-webkit-appearance: radio;box-sizing: border-box;" type="radio" name="category" value="Adult Content" required=""> Contains adult content </label>
    <label style="display: block;line-height: 0; font-size: 16px; margin: 15px 0 15px;">
      <input style="margin:0 8px 0 0;vertical-align: middle;transform: translateY(-0.15em);-webkit-appearance: radio;box-sizing: border-box;" type="radio" name="category" value="Covers the Page" required=""> Covers the page </label>
    <label style="display: block;line-height: 0; font-size: 16px; margin: 15px 0 15px;">
      <input style="margin:0 8px 0 0;vertical-align: middle;transform: translateY(-0.15em);-webkit-appearance: radio;box-sizing: border-box;" type="radio" name="category" value="Other" required=""> Other </label>
    <h2 style="font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(58,58,58);text-align:left;margin:25px 0 15px;">Additional Information</h2>
    <div style="width:100%;display:none;height: 35px;line-height:35px;font-size:13px;padding:0 12px;color:white;background-color:#FF3860;border-radius:2px;margin-bottom:10px; " id="adl-text-minlen-error">Please help us by describing the ad.</div>
    <div style="width:100%;display:none;height: 35px;line-height:35px;font-size:13px;padding:0 12px;color:white;background-color:#FF3860;border-radius:2px;margin-bottom:10px; " id="adl-text-maxlen-error">Only 500 characters are allowed.</div>
    <textarea id="adl-user-feedback" style="box-sizing:border-box;resize: none; margin:0;width:100%;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;height:100px;border:1px solid #B0B0B0;padding:11px 15px;border-radius:2px;" minlength="3" maxlength="500"
      placeholder="What does the ad say, who is the advertiser, what does the ad look like?" name="user_feedback"></textarea>
  </div>
  <button type="button"
    style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;margin: 20px auto 0;width:200px;cursor:pointer;background-color:#7c6bf7;display:block;color:#fff;border-radius:2px;border:none;padding:15px 40px;font-weight:700;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;"
    id="adl-report-ad-modal__submit-button">Report ad</button>
</form>

Text Content

X
OZY

Live Curiously
Newsletters
Profile
About
Search
TV
PODCASTS
NEWS
NEWSLETTERS
AWARDS
FESTIVALS


News + Politics


AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: SHOULD WE FAVOR CLASS OVER RACE?

1 second of 2 minutes, 22 secondsVolume 0%

Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard ShortcutsEnabledDisabled
Play/PauseSPACE
Increase Volume↑
Decrease Volume↓
Seek Forward→
Seek Backward←
Captions On/Offc
Fullscreen/Exit Fullscreenf
Mute/Unmutem
Seek %0-9
Auto1080p1080p720p406p270p180p
Live
00:08
02:13
02:22






 
News + Politics


AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: SHOULD WE FAVOR CLASS OVER RACE?

By OZY Editors

 * Facebook
 * Twitter
 * Love this?share
 * Email article
 * Copy link
   
   Copy link to share with friends
   
   Copy link
   


WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

Because it’s getting harder for low-income students to keep up with their
wealthier peers.

By OZY Editors

July 5, 2017
OZY's electrifying TV show serves up provocative questions each week.OZY's
electrifying TV show serves up provocative questions each week. We want to hear
your thoughts: thirdrail@ozy.com

Our question this week: Should we favor class over race in affirmative
action? Email us or comment below with your thoughts.

The recent rumors of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement from the U.S. Supreme
Court and the prospect of President Donald Trump replacing him with a more
conservative justice serve as reminders that race-based affirmative action in
America may be on its last pair of 80-year-old legal legs. Last year, the
often-swing justice was the deciding vote in a 4-3 decision in Fisher v.
University of Texas, upholding the University of Texas’ race-conscious
admissions system.

The precarious legal footing, and a renewed interest in addressing income and
educational inequality, has led a number of states and schools to develop
class-based preferences in admissions policies that they hope will improve both
income and racial diversity. Regardless of the Supreme Court’s composition, is
it time to move beyond racial preferences in admissions? Should more places
consider jettisoning race-based affirmative action in favor of class-based?

> Can class-based admissions policies be trusted to maintain minority
> representation levels?

Although affirmative action policies are used in the U.S. workplace, their use
in the sphere of higher education has been the focal point of recent Supreme
Court cases, and hence the center of the debate. It wasn’t long ago that the
achievement gap between white and Black students in America was twice as large
as the one between students from low-income and high-income families. But that
dynamic has shifted in recent years, according to a recent report from the Jack
Kent Cooke Foundation, an independent educational organization. The income gap
now is twice as big as the race one. While students from the bottom-income
quartile make up about 3 percent of enrollment in the most competitive U.S.
colleges, their peers from the top-income quartile make up a whopping 72
percent, despite affirmative action policies and rising Pell Grant levels at
these schools.

Why such a pronounced class difference? “The biggest problem is money,”
best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell told OZY last summer before discussing
educational inequality at OZY Fest in New York City’s Central Park. “College has
gotten absurdly expensive, and lower-income Americans can’t afford it,” he said.
On average, students from low-income families are less likely than their more
advantaged peers to have access to Advanced Placement courses, to visit college
campuses, to make early applications, to have knowledge of available financial
aid and to enjoy a host of other resources that help one navigate and win entry
into a selective college.

 

To address such class discrepancies (and to get around restrictions on
race-based preferences), a number of states, including Texas, California and
Florida, have “percent plans” that guarantee admission to state universities for
the top-ranked graduates at each high school in the state, and a number of
colleges have adopted socioeconomic-based admissions. The University of
Colorado, Boulder, for example, uses a number of socioeconomic variables (a
“disadvantage index”) in admissions to boost its numbers of both low-income
students and underrepresented minorities.



It’s not clear, however, whether CU’s policy can be successfully transplanted
elsewhere, or whether class-based admissions policies can be trusted to maintain
minority representation levels absent the inclusion of race-based factors.
According to Angel L. Harris, a sociology professor at Duke University who has
studied the impact of percent plans like Texas’ on racial compositions, income
and race-based preferences are not interchangeable, and “moving away from
race-based admissions policies,” as he argues in The New York Times, “appears to
lead to a reduction in the representation of diverse perspectives.”

American employers who voluntarily implement race-based affirmative action plans
to promote a more diverse workforce have closely observed the Supreme Court’s
rulings on race-conscious admissions policies, and will undoubtedly also monitor
how well class-based policies might succeed in the realm of higher education.
And if class-based decisions can work in admissions, then perhaps they can help
inform hiring decisions too.  

What do you think? Should we favor class over race when it comes to affirmative
action? Email thirdrail@ozy.com.





 * OZY Editors, OZY Author Contact OZY Editors


July 5, 2017

TOPICS

 * BUSINESS
 * College
 * Education
 * Inequality
 * Opinion
 * OZY Edu
 * Policy
 * POLITICS & POWER
 * Race and Ethnicity
 * Racism
 * SOCIETY
 * Third Rail
 * Universities



SIGN UP FOR THE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER!

SIGN UP





RELATED STORIES

News + Politics

DOES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HELP OR HARM ASIAN-AMERICANS? OZY ASKED THEM

At OZY’s Take On America in San Francisco, we tackled affirmative action,
Hollywood beauty standards and the ethics of tech.

News + Politics

IS IT TIME TO MAKE SPORTS GENDER-NEUTRAL? WE ASKED, YOU ANSWERED

We asked whether sports should become gender-neutral.

News + Politics

CAN THIS POLITICIAN PASTE OVER THE RACIAL CRACKS IN BRITISH SCHOOLS?

Labour MP David Lammy talks about the need to consider affirmative action in
education for the marginalized.

News + Politics

ARE WE BECOMING MORE RACIST, OR LESS? WE ASKED, YOU ANSWERED

Friday’s episode of Third Rail With OZY on PBS kick-started a heated debate on
race in America.

News + Politics

IS THE TRUTH OVERRATED? WE ASKED, YOU ANSWERED

Last Friday’s premiere of Third Rail With OZY on PBS kick-started a heated
debate.

News + Politics

IS FAKE NEWS CRIMINAL? WE ASKED, YOU ANSWERED

Third Rail With OZY is back.

News + Politics

ENDING RACIAL BIAS IN POLICING? WE ASKED, YOU ANSWERED

Third Rail With OZY is back!.

The New + the Next

WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO ELIMINATE RACIAL BIAS IN POLICING?

OZY’s Third Rail is back.

News + Politics

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: CLASS OVER RACE? WE ASKED, YOU ANSWERED

What would be most effective? .

News + Politics

SHOULD THE UNITED STATES BE A CHRISTIAN NATION?

Third Rail With OZY is back for a thought experiment regarding freedom of
religion.

News + Politics

SHOULD TECH COMPANIES GIVE UP YOUR DATA TO THE FBI?

Third Rail with OZY is back this week.

News + Politics

TRANSGENDER, TRANSRACIAL — WE ASKED, YOU ANSWERED

“Third Rail With OZY” asked if you thought it was more acceptable to be
transgender than transracial.

The New + the Next

UNLEARNING SEXISM IN MONTANA

Faculty at Montana State University are leading a feminist revolution.

News + Politics

HOLIDAY DINNER TABLE DEBATES

Look no further for dinner table debate topics, should they be required.

News + Politics

THE LONG JOURNEY OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled on affirmative action.


LIVE CURIOUSLY

 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 

 * ABOUT
   
   * ABOUT US
   * CONTACT US
   * JOBS @ OZY
   * PRIVACY POLICY
   * SUNDAY MAGAZINE

 * TV
   
   * THE CARLOS WATSON SHOW
   * DEFINING MOMENTS
   * BLACK WOMEN OWN
   * TAKE ON AMERICA
   * BREAKING BIG
   * MORE TV + VIDEO

 * PODCASTS
   
   * WHEN KATTY MET CARLOS
   * THE CARLOS WATSON SHOW
   * FLASHBACK
   * THE THREAD
   * THE FUTURE OF X
   * OZY CONFIDENTIAL
   * MORE PODCASTS

 * NEWS
   
   * NEWS + POLITICS
   * THE NEW + THE NEXT
   * TRUE STORIES
   * AROUND THE WORLD
   * GOOD SH*T
   * SUNDAY MAGAZINE
   * MORE OZY TOPICS

 * NEWSLETTERS
   
   * WHISKEY IN YOUR COFFEE
   * PRESIDENTIAL DAILY BRIEF
   * DAILY DOSE
   * THE WEEKENDER

 * AWARDS
   
   * APPLY NOW
   * NOMINATE A GENIUS

 * FESTIVALS
   
   * OZY FEST 2020
   * LINEUP
   * ABOUT
   * AROUND THE WORLD



A Modern Media Company
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 

© OZY 2021 - Terms & Conditions






WHY ARE YOU REPORTING THIS AD?

Please make a selection.
Plays sound Contains adult content Covers the page Other


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please help us by describing the ad.
Only 500 characters are allowed.
Report ad

Thank you for letting us know.

Powered by
×



Ad Services Privacy Policy | AdChoices 



Sign up for notifications to stay up to date with the latest and greatest from
OZY.


ALLOWNO THANKS