The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action removes race from consideration in the college admissions process.

How will this decision affect students applying to colleges and universities? What will be the impact on growing a more diverse student body on college campuses? 

MPR News host Angela Davis talks to a university president and a historian about the court’s ruling on how this change in affirmative action will affect the future of higher education.

Guests: 

• Leah Wright Rigueur is a political historian at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.




• Suzanne M. Rivera is the president of Macalester College in St. Paul. She’s the college’s 17th president and has worked in higher education for more than 25 years.

  
  

  
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