Major Universities Are Reportedly Using Race as a 'High Impact Predictor' of Student Success
Description
Several major universities are reportedly using a tool that uses race as one factor to predict student success.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- university-of-wisconsin-milwaukee
- university-of-massachusetts-amherst
- university-of-houston
- texas-aandm-university
- more-than-500-colleges
- georgia-state-university
Alleged Developers
- eab
Harmed Parties
- university-students
- students
- latinx-college-students
- indigenous-students
- educational-communities
- black-college-students
Classification
Risk Domain
Discrimination & ToxicityRisk Subdomain
1.1. Unfair discrimination and misrepresentation
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