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Outstanding Colleges Are Outstanding Because of Their Diversity, Scholar Contends

Without policies that take race into account, the admissions processes of many selective colleges unfairly favor white students, says Sarah Susannah Willie, an associate professor of sociology and chairwoman of the black-studies program at Swarthmore College.

"That fact is rarely articulated," she writes in her new book, Acting...

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