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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。
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.
In 2003, another Supreme Court decision—Grutter v. Bollinger—found that the University of Michigan Law School did not violate the U.S.Constitutionby considering the race of its applicants, provided that other factors were considered during the admissions process, and there was no quota system in...
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
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This case left many questions about affirmative action. Although no university openly admits to using racial quotas for student admissions, the concept is widely applied in university admissions. Different schools have varying interpretations of the boundaries of implementation, leading to a ...
In that ruling, the court found that affirmative action policies used in University of Michigan Law School admissions did not violate the Equal Protection Clause. Delivering the court's 5-4 opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that "in the context of its individualized inquiry into the po...
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...
It's been more than a year since the Supreme Court ended affirmative action, and the enrollment of Black students is down at elite colleges. Scott White, former director of guidance at Montclair High School in New Jersey, and a freelance writer for Forbes on college admissions, joins CBS New...