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Columbia plans to meet this challenge by assembling one of the greatest and most diverse concentrations of brain power anywhere in the world. A key part of the university's proposed expansion in the Manhattanville area of West Harlem will provide the opportunity to add approximately 500 new researchers, who will collaborate across traditional academic boundaries to address the signal challenges of our time.

The recent 5-4 decision limiting voluntary segregation programs in our nation’s public schools represents an inversion of the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision’s clarion call for racial equality in education. And it is all too easy to understand how societal efforts to achieve racial integration, including through affirmative action in higher education, are now in serious jeopardy.

This op-ed column was published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In it, he criticizes recent trends and setbacks that are making it difficult for public schools and universities to promote diversity.