Commentary: Trump administration doesn’t understand what affirmative action is

This week, news broke that the Trump administration will continue with its agenda against affirmative action and “race-based” admissions. Unfortunately for all students, these measures demonstrate a clearly deficient understanding of the reality of affirmative action, what it means to consider race in admission and why these practices were implemented. Our entire educational system stands to suffer as a result.The ignorance displayed in this decision begins with the basics — co