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...
Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit filed by Abby Fisher challenging the use of race by the University of Texas as a factor in admissions. Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, believes that the court should prohibit racial preferences in university admission...
Racial quotas are illegal under past Supreme Court rulings. Higher ed groups support universities' practices Prominent higher education groups have been steadfast in their support for race-conscious admissions. Diversity can’t be broadly quantified, Peter McDonough, vice president and general counsel fo...
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.
the nation's oldest private institution, and the University of North Carolina, the oldest public university. Both disputes were brought in November 2014 by the group Students for Fair Admissions, founded by conservative activist Ed Blum, who for years has fought to end the use of...
Fourth, the Court found that the universities’ asserted justifications improperly rely on and perpetuate racial stereotypes. The Court reiteratedGrutter’s holding that admissions programs cannot be based on a “belief that minority students always (or even consistently) express some characteri...
The cases attack affirmative action consideration in admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. "Racial classifications are wrong," attorney Patrick Strawbridge on behalf of the group Students for Fair Admissions. The Supreme Court began hearin...
marks the second time this year the high court has opted not to extend its 2022 decision outlawing the use of race as a factor in university admissions. The 2022 ruling left open questions about policies that don’t explicitly consider race but nonetheless affect a school’s racial composition...
How Affirmative Action Has Played a Role in College Admissions The use of racial quotas, in which colleges reserve a designated number of spots for students based on their race and admit them exclusively on that basis, was ruled unconstitutional in the 1978 Supreme Court case Regents of...
“we expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences” in the university admissions context “will no longer be necessary.” 参考文章 Adam Liptak and Anemona Hartocollis. "Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Affirmati...