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Coalition urges Massachusetts to ban legacy preferences at colleges, calling the practice inequitable
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Senator Edwards and a coalition of students, alumni, advocates and civil‑liberties groups urged the Joint Committee on Higher Education to favorably report S928/H1452, legislation that would prohibit legacy preferences in college admissions.
Senator Edwards and a coalition of students, alumni, advocates and civil‑liberties groups urged the Joint Committee on Higher Education to favorably report S928/H1452, legislation that would prohibit legacy preferences in college admissions.
“Legacy preferences will not be considered into your admission into public schools or into private schools in the Commonwealth,” Senator Edwards said in testimony, arguing the practice is a relic of exclusionary admission policies that preferentially benefit white and affluent applicants.
Multiple advocates provided recent data and historical context. James Murphy, director of…
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