The U.S. Education Department will today join groups that have been urging colleges that ask applicants about criminal justice and other disciplinary records to reconsider whether the questions are necessary and, if they are, whether they are being asked in ways that are unfair.
The department is releasing a report, "Beyond the Box," highlighting evidence that asking such questions can depress applications from those who had encounters with the criminal justice system as youth that may result from bias in the criminal justice system against young black males, or that may reflect behavior students have long outgrown.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/05/09/education-department-report-urges-colleges-reconsider-admissions-questions-criminal