A divided Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
Supreme Court Restricts Use of Affirmative Action In 2022, the Supreme Court again heard arguments in a pair of cases regarding college admissions—this time, however, the cases were brought on behalf of a minority group seeking to exclude race as a factor in admissions decisions. ...
U.S. Supreme Court Issues Landmark SFFA College Affirmative Action Decision (June 29, 2023) On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision on the use of race as a factor in undergraduate college admissions in two cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA)....
Supreme Court ruled against race-conscious college admissions.[1] Colleges and universities began to consider race as a factor in admissions in the late 1960s to diversify student bodies.[2] As of 2023, eight states have banned affirmative action, with other states reversing (Texas and ...
The Pledge of Allegiance, which supposedly captures the core values of America, is a nostalgic hymn by virtually all citizens of the U.S. We recite it in public schools, at football games, and a wide range of ceremonies and celebrations. From the time we are young, these words become ...
The US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision on June 29, 2023 regarding challenges to race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC). In a 6–3 decision split along ideological lines (the vote was 6
Supreme Court will hear oral argument on the use of race as a factor in undergraduate college admissions in two cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA). Beyond challenging the current legal test that applies to student admissions, a ruling in the SFFA cases may create larger ...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s first Latina, wrote in dissent that the decision “rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress.” Both Thomas and Sotomayor, the two justices who have acknowledged affirmative action played a role in their admissions to college and law school, took...
六月29号,美国最高法院发表Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College案例的判词。根据该判词,被告大学的“种族平权法案”(所谓的Race-Based Affirmative Action)制度违反美国的宪法的Equal Protection Clause (平等保護條款)。因此,该判决立刻禁止所有美国大学使用类似的制度。
How Affirmative Action Has Played a Role in College Admissions The use of racial quotas, in which colleges reserve a designated number of spots for students based on their race and admit them exclusively on that basis, was ruled unconstitutional in the 1978 Supreme Court case Regents of ...