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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Beyond Race: Richard Kahlenberg on Building Real Diversity at Our Colleges
Description: Can a new class-based approach to college admissions produce economic and racial diversity alike—and greater fairness?For decades America’s colleges and universities have been working to increase racial diversity. But Richard Kahlenberg argues that they have been using the wrong approach. He makes the case that class disadvantage, rather than race, should be the determining factor for how a broader array of people “get in.”While elite universities claim to be on the side of social justice, the dirty secret of higher education is that the perennial focus on...