The U.S. Supreme Court has banned the use of race-conscious admissions practices by colleges and universities in a 6-2 and 6-3 decision on two respective lawsuits involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The cases, which continue along saga of lawsuitsagainst the pract...
Supreme Court on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, to urge justices to preserve race-conscious college admissions. Jeremy Bauer-Wolf/Higher Ed Dive Listen to the article 8 min WASHINGTON — Some colleges have credited race-conscious admissions policies with helping construct diverse student bodies — but...
Supreme Court Takes Up Challenge to Race-Conscious Admissions at U. of TexasBy Peter Schmidt
"The Supreme Court's decision on race-conscious admissions gives an unfortunate perception that an equal playing field, equal application of the rules, and equal expectation of coverage and protection by the law is still as easily expected as catching a shadow," he wrote in ...
The assumption that affirmative action would not withstand the Supreme Court's scrutiny has now come to fruition. While the decision will be felt most acutely at highly competitive schools, universities have warned that ending race-conscious admissions programs would lead to a significan...
A federal judge upheld the Naval Academy’s race-conscious admissions policy Friday, rejecting a challenge from the group that succeeded at the Supreme Court in gutting affirmative action at civilian higher education institutions. ThatSupreme Court decisiondidn’t apply to the nati...
The Supreme Court rejected race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions this past year, ruling in cases brought by SFFA against Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. That ruling – which overturned decades of legal precedent – not only changed the way highly sou...
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race-conscious admissionsThe Supreme Court has held that race may be considered as "a factor of a factor of a factor" within a "holistic" program of university admissions if the universdoi:10.2139/ssrn.3436117Dent, George W.Arkes, Hal R....
Oral arguments before the Supreme Court at the end of this month will provide a dramatic setting for the national debate over the fairness of race-conscious admissions in higher education. But the drama is not so much in what we will hear—in both these cases, the pa...