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...
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.
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...
Students for Fair Admissions is seeking to overturn the Supreme Court's ruling in the case Grutter v. Bollinger, which in 2003 found that colleges could consider race in their admissions in order to have diverse campuses. Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted that the 14...
A ruling will likely come toward the end of June, as is often the case with major decisions. This will be the first time the Supreme Court has ruled on race-conscious policies since 2016, when it narrowly upheld the admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin. SFFA also bro...
saying that the policy illegally favored black and latino applicants and discriminated against white and asian ones. but the 1st circuit upheld a judge's ruling rejecting those arguments. by then, the supreme court had ruled on race-conscious college admissions policies, but the 1s...
Whethercollegesand universities should consider race or ethnicity as part of the admissions process has been widely debated in higher education for decades. Now, the fate of affirmative action has officially been decided, with the U.S. Supreme Courtruling againstthe use of race in college...
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Boston parents who claimed a temporary admissions policy for the city’s elite high schools discriminated against white students and those of Asian descent.
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
Now that the Supreme Court has struck down race-conscious admissions, employers could face challenges in how they find diverse talent. While the ruling is focused on university admissions and does not mandate changes by employers, experts say it is still likely to affect hiring and retention pract...