Enrollment data for the first round of college students after the outlawing of affirmative action has emerged over the past few weeks. And this year's admissions illuminate just how much the court decision has caused a shift in campus diversity thus far.

Class of 2028
Harvard College was the latest school to release data on the racial and ethnic makeup of the class of 2028, the first class impacted by the Supreme Court "striking down the ability of colleges and universities to consider race and ethnicity as one factor among many in the admissions process," said The Harvard Gazette. Excluding students who chose not to identify their race, 14% identified as African American or Black, a decrease from 18% in the class of 2027. The number of Hispanic students went up to 16% from 14%. Asian American students comprised 37% of the class, and less than 1% identified as Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islanders, reflecting no change in either group. 

Too early to draw conclusions?
It may still be too early to jump to answers based on the available data for the class of 2028. With only a few dozen schools reporting their enrollments, "we still can't definitively speak to how racially diverse this first post-affirmative-action class will be," Michaele Turnage Young, of the Equal Protection Initiative at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said to Vox. So far, "there isn't much good news in the data for students of color," said Vox.

Some experts were critical of the "discrepancy between what was predicted and the actual outcome of the court's ruling," suggesting some "might have not complied with the decision," said the Times. Schools like Princeton and Yale argued in court briefs that "there was no way you could get racial diversity without taking race into account," Peter Arcidiacono, an economist at Duke who testified against Harvard at the trial, said to the outlet. "So I think the burden is on them to show how they were able to do so, because it sure looks like they were cheating."

Europe's arch-technocrat Mario Draghi is on a mission to save the eurozone and fix the EU — again. The former central bank chief, who famously said he would "do whatever it takes" to save the euro during the post-financial crash debt crisis of the early 2010s, has released a landmark report on how to stem Europe's economic decline and reverse the swing toward U.S. and Chinese dominance. 

What did the commentators say? 
Draghi wants to make Europe more competitive by boosting innovation, increasing investment and exploiting the bloc's scale by bringing together fragmented markets. In short, said The Economist, he wants to "make Europe a bit more European, which in these areas at least is smart." 

Speaking in Brussels this week, Draghi warned that "we're going to be a society that basically shrinks," adding that "we share this cake, which becomes smaller and smaller, with a smaller number of people." His diagnosis is "widely shared by experts," said Politico. But "what to do about it is the hard part." 

Given the "scale of the challenge," said the FT, the bloc needs an "ambitious agenda to jump-start its long-subdued productivity growth," which has fallen well behind the U.S., China and India over the past three decades. The solution, Draghi argues, is a "new industrial strategy" that raises public and private investment by $886 billion a year, or 4.7% of total eurozone GDP, to boost growth. Other proposals include energy market reform, looser merger rules and collective efforts to close the innovation gap with the U.S. and China, particularly in technology. Decision-making processes would also be reformed to become more efficient and faster. 

What next? 
Draghi's findings and recommendations have "gained significant attention," said Euronews, and should provide a valuable framework for the European Commission's newly reelected president, Ursula von der Leyen. But "their long-term impact is unclear." Although Europe is facing a series of economic, political and defense crises, Draghi's proposals are "longstanding Brussels demands that have been repeatedly opposed by the EU's own members." 

Acting on them will be the "real challenge," said the Financial Times. The bloc's two largest economies, France and Germany, are "grappling with unstable coalition governments that may hinder any progress on EU-wide matters." Strategic cooperation, especially around common debt and plans for a capital market union, is "easier said than done."