AFFIRMATIVE action programsMEDICAL schoolsAPPELLATE courtsThis Medical News feature examines the potential impact of the US Supreme Court's affirmative action decision on medical schools and health care.doi:10.1001/jama.2023.13603Rubin, RitaJAMA: Journal of the American Medical Associat...
MORE: Supreme Court effectively ends affirmative action at colleges in landmark ruling However, the 2023 decision by the Supreme Court sided in part with Students for Fair Admissions, a conservative group that challenged race-related admissions policies. Members argued that th...
Dr. Michael L. Lomax, president and CEO of the UNCF, which like the Thurgood Marshall College Fund financially supports HBCU students, believes the Supreme Court decision will harm historically Black schools if there's no way of "navigating" through it. The affirmative action...
Elizabeth Prelogar, argued passionately in defense of affirmative action along with a slew of other lawyers. All of them noted that while affirmative action policies are not theoretically perfect, they are the best solution currently
The decision inSchuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Actionupheld Michigan’s Proposal 2, approved by the state’s voters in 2006 by a margin of fifty-eight to forty-two percent. The measure told the state’s public colleges and universities that they could no longer “grant preferential...
And this term is no exception. With just two weeks left in June, the Court has, at this writing, about 19 decisions left to dish out. And one of them is a whopper. Yes, the most highly anticipated decision of October Term 2022 is the decision on affirmative action in a pair of cons...
But even when Sotomayor is being questioned about her judicial record, the focus isn’t on her legal approach or process but on the outcomes. So when she talks about herRiccidecision, Jeff Sessions asks her why she didn’t apply affirmative action precedents that had no bearing in a case ...
Last week, the Supreme Court ended affirmative action and declared race can no longer be a factor in college admissions, overturning long-standing programs that have benefitted Black and Latino students. In response to the controversial decision by SCOTUS,Barkley altered his willto ensure the $5...
SCOTUS: Michigan Voters May Mandate Race-Neutral Admissions.The article discusses the Supreme Court decision in the Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action court case upholding the amendment to the state constitution of Michigan prohibiting discrimination by public colleges and universities on ...
the court said it expects the appeals court to issue a fuller decision on the plan “with appropriate dispatch.” The Education Department is seeking to provide a faster path to loan cancellation, and reduce monthly income-based repayments. Cost estimates of the new SAVE plan vary from $276 ...