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What the California vote to keep the ban on affirmative action means for higher education

  • Written by Vinay Harpalani, Associate Professor of Law and Henry Weihofen Professor, University of New Mexico
imagePublic universities in California cannot consider race in admissions.Mark Ralston / Getty

Editor’s note: On Nov. 3, California voters rejected Proposition 16, a proposed amendment to the California Constitution which would have reinstated affirmative action in the state’s public institutions. Here, Vinay Harpalani, an expert on...

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