Yesterday the Chicago Tribune ran an article under this headline: New U. of I. board eliminates preferential admissions.
The assertion in the headline is, of course, not true. What the new board eliminated was only the preferential admission of friends of politicians and other well-connected people, as discussed here and here.
Preferential admissions of favored racial and ethnic groups remains alive and thriving at the University of Illinois (“College admissions should be race-conscious,” said then University Chancellor Nancy Cantor).
