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)....
Affirmative Action Rulings Seen Yielding Refinements In College-Entrance Plans.Selective colleges and universities in the United States are likely to refine their race-conscious admissions practices in wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision offering conditional support for affirmative action, observers ...
Real-world examples already back up that prediction. After the University of California eliminated affirmative action in 1996, the share of underrepresented groups fell 12% in the years that followed. When the University of Michiganbanned race-conscious admissions, Black undergraduate enrollment at th...
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.
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. ...
Affirmative action in the college admissions process has been primarily an ethical rather than a legal issue. As long as the decision process did not use racial quotas, colleges were allowed to choose to accept whomever they wanted. This is changing however. California's Proposition 209 prohibits...
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. ...
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 ...
By S. Michael Gaddis, Doctoral Student University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The concept of affirmative action often sparks bitter turmoil in both the popular press and U.S. society as a whole. You may know that affirmative action is...
Businesses and governments commonlyimplement affirmative action programsby taking individuals' race, sex, religion, or national origin into account when hiring. It has been widely used in education settings in the United States, particularly in college admissions. However, in the 2023 ruling of Student...