Reports on the United States Supreme Court's decision concerning race-based student admissions in public colleges and universities in the Southern States, putting affirmative action programs in...
In the majority decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court stated that educational institutions across the country should use impartial standards in their admissions process without considering race. “The Court has permitted race-based college admissions only within the confines of narrow...
A group that opposes affirmative actionfiled an appealTuesday of a federal ruling that Harvard had not intentionally discriminated against Asian-American applicants, ratcheting up a challenge to decades of Supreme Court decisions upholding ...
Washington —The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge to race-neutral admissions criteria at three prestigious Boston high schools that aimed to increase the racial and economic diversity of their student bodies.Justice Neil Gorsuchnotedthat the schools have since changed the admissions poli...
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.
Lower courts have ruled the two universities did not break from the Supreme Court’s precedent that race can be narrowly applied in admissions. But at times during Monday’s arguments, conservative justices seemed to be trying to bait lawyers for the universities into admitting race was a decidin...
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...
As a response to the court’s decision, experts predict that colleges may increase outreach in communities of color and rural areas. Towson Universityin Maryland – which does not use race as a factor in its admissions decisions – has implemented other strategies over the years to enr...
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
We have seen the laws change and evolve with similar cases making their way to the Supreme Court, and we have seen how these decisions regarding race-conscious admissions have resonated in the admissions process. We have seen the impact of diversity in academic and professional environments, ...