Michael Dannenberg

Racial and economic diversity are both essential ingredients to campus life. How can colleges and universities promote both types of diversity after the Supreme Court’s ruling on race in admissions?

What can we learn from colleges that have faced bans on using race at the state level? What do we know about “affirmative access” programs at the state and local level? Hear how to structure admissions, college access initiatives, and recruitment to produce heightened racial and economic diversity to and through completion of higher education.

How do using admissions factors such as overcoming low family wealth, high neighborhood poverty levels, and modest parental income and education levels promote fairness and implicitly address our nation’s history of racial discrimination?

How can universities find the resources to pay for this new type of affirmative action? And what can state and local leaders do to ensure there is a pipeline of qualified, financially capable, and fully supported students from historically underserved populations?