Tag: affirmative
Biden Administration Offers Guidance After Affirmative Action Decision
The Biden administration, in its first guidance on how to handle the Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action, offered colleges and universities on M [...]
Supreme Court affirmative action poses challenges in hiring
Affirmative action supporters and counterprotesters shout at each other outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 29, 2023.Ken [...]
Affirmative Action Ruling May Upend Hiring Policies, Too
As a legal matter, the Supreme Court’s rejection of race-conscious admissions in higher education does not in itself impede employers from pursuing di [...]
Five Ways College Admissions Could Change After Affirmative Action Decision
Students may change what they write about in the college essay. And they may no longer be tortured by the SAT and ACT.As for children of alumni? The p [...]
Black Supreme Court Justices Spar Over Affirmative Action Decision
In an extraordinary exchange that played out among the pages of a landmark decision by the Supreme Court declaring race-conscious admissions at colleg [...]
Affirmative Action Decision Raises Uncertainty for Students
The teenagers seeking shade as their tour groups crisscrossed leafy Harvard Yard on Thursday knew that they would be among the first students to feel [...]
Read Key Sections of the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling
In a sign of the complexity and politically charged nature of the issue, the majority opinion, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., was accom [...]
What Is Affirmative Action? What Is the Equal Protection Clause?
The Supreme Court’s majority ruling on Thursday that rejected race-conscious admissions at colleges cited, in part, the Equal Protection Clause. Here [...]
Supreme Court Rejects Affirmative Action at Harvard and UNC
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unlawful, rejecti [...]
Biden Slams Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action
President Biden declared on Thursday that the Supreme Court “is not a normal court” shortly after the conservative majority ended nearly a half-centur [...]
Republican Presidential Candidates Hail the Affirmative Action Decision
The Republicans running for president applauded the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday to strike down race-based affirmative action in college admissi [...]
Here’s How Americans Feel About Affirmative Action, According to the Polls
Half of Americans disapprove of colleges and universities taking race and ethnicity into account in admissions decisions, according to a recent Pew Re [...]
Sotomayor and Jackson Write Dissents for Affirmative Action Case
Sonia Sotomayor, one of the three liberal justices on the Supreme Court, said in her dissenting opinion on the Harvard case that the court turned its [...]
Affirmative Action Ruling May Mean a Drop in Black and Latino Students
Nine states already ban the use of race-conscious college admissions at their public universities, and their experience could provide a sign of the ru [...]
SCOTUS Last Issued a Major Decision on Affirmative Action in 2016
In 2016, in its last major case on affirmative action in higher education, the Supreme Court upheld an aspect of an idiosyncratic admissions program a [...]