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'" Roberts wrote that the affirmative action programs "lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful end points. We have never permitted admissions programs to work in that way, and we will not do so today". [57]
Black student enrollment at Harvard Law took a nosedive after the Supreme Court ruled against race-based admissions last year. The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a major ruling on affirmative ...
The steep decline follows the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to ban affirmative action in college admissions. Harvard was a defendant named in one of the lawsuits brought by Students for Fair ...
In 2016, the last time the Supreme Court ruled on affirmative action, the justices narrowly upheld the admissions policy at the University of Texas at Austin on a 4-3 vote, with conservative ...
The challengers, Students for Fair Admissions, argued that Harvard's practice of affirmative action and their "personal" rating system sets the bar higher for Asian-American students than other ...
[1] [2] In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that affirmative action programs in college admissions (excepting military academies) are unconstitutional. SFFA has been described by its opponents as an anti-affirmative action group that objects to the use of race as one of the factors in college ...
For example, in Students for Fair Admissions, the conflation of two separate issues—Harvard University's affirmative action policy and specific claims of discrimination by Harvard University – colors some people's judgements on affirmative action as a whole. [163]
A spokesperson for Harvard on Tuesday said the university has been reviewing its admissions policies to ensure compliance with the law since the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.