The Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action on Minority and Female Employment: A Natural Experiment Approach Using State-Level Affirmative Action Laws and EEO-4 Data.Harvard University: John F. Kennedy School of Government. College use of race in admissions challenged at Supreme Court in arguments....
The Supreme Court severely curtailed affirmative action in higher education admissions, declaring Harvard’s race-conscious admissions policy unconstitutional in a ruling against the school Thursday. The 6-2 decision — widely expected by legal scholars due to the Court’s strong conservative majority —...
The Affirmative Action Debate The debate over affirmative action has shown that the procedural elements of the law are just as important as the policy itself. Take, for example, the process to college and university admissions. While underrepresented student recruitment is a standard aspect of higher...
On June 29, 2023, the US Supreme Court struck down the use of race in admissions, deeming it unconstitutional. This ruling significantly impacts students of color, their chances of acceptance into college, and the amount of direct outreach they’ll receive from college.In this post, we’ll ...
The debate over affirmative action has shown that the procedural elements of the law are just as important as the policy itself. Take, for example, the process to college and university admissions. While underrepresented student recruitment is a standard aspect of higher education institution outreach...
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona: Affirmative action ruling "eliminates a valuable tool" for universities What is affirmative action? History behind race-based college admissions practices the Supreme Court overruled The Supreme Court's ruling has no direct legal effect on workplace laws, but it coul...
The meaning of AFFIRMATIVE ACTION is the use of policies, legislation, programs, and procedures to improve the educational or employment opportunities of members of certain demographic groups (such as minority groups, women, and older people) as a remedy
In Schuette v. BAMN, the case decided Tuesday, the court was considering Michigan's ban on affirmative action in college admissions. For years, Michigan’s state universities considered race as a “plus” factor, but in 2006 voters amended the state constitution to forbid that practice. The qu...
Reveals that Stanford University and the University of Michigan, under scrutiny from the Education Dept., and in the wake of charges against the University of California, Berkeley, on violations of anti-bias laws, have scaled back on the affirmative-action policies at their law schools. ...
Colleges and universities may no longer factor race into admissions after the Supreme Court ruled to end affirmative action in June 2023; affirmative action has faced many challenges in the court system in the past, and this decision will have far-reaching effects in the realm of higher education...