Harvard’s admissions process is on trial, charged with bias against Asian-American students, reports Anemona Hartocollis in the New York Times. Lawyers for Students for Fair Admissions argued that Harvard effectively sets a quota for Asian-Americans, who are less likely to be admitted than whites and others with similar or weaker qualifications. Protesters at the “Rally for the American Dream” in Boston on Monday. Photo: Reuters Harvard’s lawyer, Bill Lee, said the university

Stanford offered admission to 2,040 of the 47,450 students who applied in 2018: That’s 4.3 percent, a new low. Most of the 45,410 who were rejected were excellent students who could have been successful. Credit: Ellen Winkler/Chronicle Review Elite colleges should stop agonizing over who’s marginally more desirable than whom, argues Dalton Conley, a Princeton sociology professor, in the Washington Post. Instead, he writes, selective college should set qualification standards

Harvard discriminates against introverts, argues Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of education and history at Penn, in the Washington Post. Harvard is being sued by Asian-Americans, who charge the university engaged in unlawful discrimination. Asian-American applicants were given lower “personality” scores by admission officers — but not by interviewers who actually met them. Zimmerman isn’t sure if the “personality” evaluation documents show bias against Asian-Americans, but

The Trump administration has revoked Obama-era guidelines calling for colleges to use race in admissions. In a joint letter Tuesday, the Education and Justice Departments said the previous guidelines “advocate policy preferences and positions beyond the requirements of the Constitution.” In a separate statement, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos urged colleges to use Supreme Court decisions as a guide to “what affirmative action policies are constitutional . . . Schools should

Asian-Americans are less likely to get into Harvard, despite higher grades and test scores and stronger extracurriculars than other applicants, concludes an analysis of 160,000 student records by Students for Fair Admissions, which is suing the university for discrimination. Admissions officers gave Asian-Americans lower “personal” scores for traits such as personality, likability, courage, kindness and being “widely respected,” reports Anemona Hartocollis in the New York Tim

The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech include Harvard, Georgetown, the University of Oregon and University of South Carolina, according to the the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Since FIRE’s first “worst of the worst” list was released in 2011, the number of colleges and universities with the most restrictive speech codes has declined. However, 92 percent of American colleges still maintain speech codes that either clearly restrict — or could too easily

Violence by masked anarchists led Berkeley officials to cancel a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing commentator. (The publicity has made his upcoming book, Dangerous, a best-seller.) The Daily Californian has published five commentaries arguing that violence was justified as a form of self-defense. Violence helped ensure safety of students, argued Juan Prieto. Nina Dang argued that “asking people to maintain peaceful dialogue” with those who don’t think their “lives ma