Debate: Do We Still Need Race-Based Affirmative Action?

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Diverse and more equitable college campuses — and ultimately a more diverse and equitable America — is a worthwhile and meaningful goal, but is race-based affirmative action the best way to achieve those aims despite the Supreme Court's ruling in SFFA v. Harvard?

That is the question that members of the Johns Hopkins community and the public will be invited to explore in a debate featuring four experts and a mid-debate intervention by an alternative dispute resolution expert who will encourage the debaters to find common ground within and potential pathways forward from their disagreements. The debate will be followed by a reception.

The debaters are Natasha Warikoo, professor in the social sciences at Tufts University; Jonathan Feingold, an associate professor of law at the Boston University School of Law; Richard Kahlenberg, a nonresident scholar at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy; and Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

This event will be moderated by Stephanie Shonekan, dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, and the alternative dispute resolution expert is Mala Malhotra-Ortiz from the University of Maryland School of Law.

This debate is presented in partnership with the SNF Agora Institute and the Milton Eisenhower Symposium.