On the , hear this year’s Constitution Day debate, which asked the question, “Can colleges and universities consider race in their admissions policies?”
The annual debate was held on Sept. 17 at 51 between Richard H. Sander, UCLA’s Jesse Dukeminier Professor of law and author of Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It’s Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won’t Admit It, and Randall L. Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of law at Harvard University and author of For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law.
Each year, a topic facing the nation is debated to celebrate Constitution Day and encourage informed discourse among students. This year’s question has come before the Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard combined with Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina.
This event is sponsored by 51’s Forum for Constitutional Government and the Center for Freedom and Western Civilization.
Each episode of 13, 51’s biweekly podcast, digs into the work of a University community member by asking questions. Episodes highlight the wide array of academic disciplines at 51, with interviews featuring faculty from political science, sociology and anthropology, physics and astronomy, women’s studies, English, Africana and Latin American studies, and many more.
Previous episodes of 13 have featured: Dan Bouk, Rebecca Shiner, Mark Shiner, Rebecca Downing, Mark Divine ‘85, Niranjan Davray, Peter Klepeis, Dan Joseph, Andres Guhl, Marietta Cheng, Jessica Graybill, Lyosha Gorshkov, Masha Hedberg, Valerie Morkevičius, Nancy Ries, Daniel Bertrand Monk, Peter Balakian, Sam Rosenfeld, DeWitt Godfrey, Esther Rosbrook, Rebecca Shiner, Dawn LaFrance, Brittney Dorow ’17, Mari Prauer, Carolyn Guile, Nancy Ries, Joanna Holvey-Bowles, Martin Wong, Pamela Gramlich, Dorsey Spencer Jr., Danielle Nied, Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar, F. Scott Kraly, Kerra Hunter, Joe Levy, Nicki Moore, Ken Valente, Sarah Keen, Daniel Benton ’80, Laura H. Jack, Carrie Keating, Robert Kraynak, Dan Gough, Jennifer Tomlinson, Ana Jimenez, Alicia Simmons, Juan Fernando Ibarra Del Cuentro, Karen Harpp, Kwazi Konadu, Paul McLoughlin II, Anthony Aveni, Robert Garland, Ryan Hall, Craig Hatkoff ’76, Susan Thomson, Nick Kokonas ’91, Jessica Graybill, Brian W. Casey, Jeff Bary, Jennifer Brice, Ellen Percy Kraly, Danielle Lupton, Ynesse Abdul-Malak, Nimanthi Rajasingham, and John Pumilio.
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