A recent legal case about affirmative action was decided in favor of Harvard University's holistic admission practices. Is the fight over affirmative action over now? Not quite, explains Professor Chin, at the CUNY Graduate Center in NYC. As a researcher whose expertise is immigration, family, work, education, Asian Americans, and children of immigrants, Professor Chin explains what the legal ruling means for higher education, for the future of affirmative action, and for students, faculty and anyone who believes in equality of opportunity in our country.

Professor Chin is Professor Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. She is also a graduate of Harvard College, and she talked with me about her experience of being recruited as a New York City high school student from a poor immigrant community into one of America's premier universities -- and what that experience has taught her.