We now understand how post-affirmative action could affect the integrity of university leaders. We now know more about (1) leaders' perspectives post-SCOTUS ruling, (2) leaders' influences on the educational culture, and (3) the effects that leaders' integrity could have after...
But come this fall, the question of race is likely to enter the mix.The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to take up a case challenging the University of Texas at Austin’s affirmative action program which allows race to be taken into account on freshmen admissions.College student Abigail Fis...
By a vote of six to two (with Justice Elena Kagan not taking part), the Court cleared the way for voters elsewhere in the nation to opt to put an end to so-called “affirmative action” policies — as seven states now do. While the ruling focused on the use of race in selecting ne...
The Supreme Court upended decades of precedent and progress this week through several rulings. Starting with binging an end to affirmative action. The Court also blocked president Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan. Both decisions have disproportionately negative conse...
At the same time, since the Supreme Court’s 1978 ruling, affirmative action has suffered a series of branding setbacks. While most of the voting public continues to support affirmative action in some form, it has also been weaponized by both sides of the political spectrum as a defining ideo...
A landmark Supreme Court ruling in 1978 – in the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke – cemented affirmative action policies in college and university admissions for decades and led to an increase in diversity on campuses. ...
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For the first time in his career, Kennedy sided in favor ofaffirmative action in a 2016 casein which the Court rejected a challenge to a race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin. The 4-3 decision, in which Kennedy sided with the majority, ...
Supreme Court Upholds Lower Court Ruling on Affirmative Action Supreme Court Ties on Immigration, Blocking Obama Plan “After all the progress we have made on women’s rights, we cannot go back to the days when women in America did not have the right to control their own bodies,” he ...
Generally considered one of the more conservative members of the Supreme Court, Thomas takes a textualist approach to interpreting the Constitution, trying to uphold the document's original meaning. His approach to many issues, such as opposing affirmative action, has drawn criticism from liberals an...