In the courts and the public square, affirmative action is losing support.

A decision last week by the U.S. Supreme Court advances the movement to end racial preferences in college admissions. Is there an alternative that still assures systematically disadvantaged students have a chance? I consider that question today.

Readers share their views, many of them skeptical, on the newly released state school grades. And an expert in the job placement field gives encouragement to liberal arts graduates that there are jobs out there for them.

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The renovation of Jekyll Island's Great Dunes golf course includes nine holes designed by Walter Travis in the 1920s for the members of the Jekyll Island Club. Several holes that were part of the original layout where located along the beach and were bulldozed in the 1950s.(Photo by Austin Kaseman)

Credit: Photo by Austin Kaseman