In another major reversal, the Supreme Court forbids the use of race as an admissions factor at colleges and universities.
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Collegiate Affirmative Action Bans Linked to Increase in Smoking among Minority High School Students
June 18, 2019By
College affirmative action bans may adversely affect the health of underrepresented minority high school students, according to the results of a new study from researchers at Penn Medicine. Between 1996 and 2013, nine U.S. states banned consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions. A new study in PLOS Medicine shows that the action bans had unanticipated effects, specifically resulting in increased rates of smoking among minority high school students
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