BiasMedium
Major Universities Are Reportedly Using Race as a 'High Impact Predictor' of Student Success
- Occurred
- Jan 1, 2012
- Published
- Mar 2, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Several major universities are reportedly using a tool that uses race as one factor to predict student success.
Developers
- EAB
Deployers
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- University of Houston
- Texas A&M University
- more than 500 colleges
- Georgia State University
Harmed parties
- University students
- Students
- Latinx college students
- indigenous students
- Educational communities
- Black college students
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Universities using race as a predictor raises discrimination concerns and disparate impact issues.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8