Data Summary In June 2023, the U.S. 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 ...
Journal of College Student Development, 48, 166 -182.Pike, Gary , George Kuh , and Robert Gonyea . 2007 . “Evaluating the Rationale for Affirmative Action in College Admissions: Direct and Indirect Relationships between Campus Diversity and Gains in Understanding Diver...
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)....
Historically, decisions in this context have provided the foundation for how private companies have structured DEI efforts. But, the decision turns, at least in part, on factors that are uniquely universal in the college admissions context—especially the zero-sum nature of the process. ...
Both Thomas and Sotomayor, the two justices who have acknowledged affirmative action played a role in their admissions to college and law school, took the unusual step of reading summaries of their opinions aloud in the courtroom. In a separate dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson — the court...
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 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 ...
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 ...
The Supreme Court ruled affirmative action in college admissions at Harvard and UNC are unconstitutional. The repercussions could be far-reaching.