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The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a major ruling on affirmative action in the summer of 2023, rejecting the use of race as a factor in college admissions as a violation of the 14th Amendment's ...
'" 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]
Harvard Law School is reporting its lowest Black student enrollment since the 1960s just one year after the Supreme Court’s decision to end race-conscious college admissions. Only 19 first-year ...
The Supreme Court struck down affirmative action at University of North Carolina and Harvard, ends the systematic consideration of race in the admissions process.
Of survey respondents, 65% favored affirmative action programs for women and 61% favored affirmative action programs for minorities. Also in February 2019, the Pew Research Center published the results of a January and February 2019 survey and found that 73% of its respondents said that race or ethnicity should not be a factor in college ...
Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir. 1996), [1] was the first successful legal challenge to a university's affirmative action policy in student admissions since Regents of the University of California v.
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, effectively prohibiting affirmative action ...
University of Texas made alterations to the standards by which courts must judge affirmative action programs, but continued to permit race to be taken into consideration in university admissions, while forbidding outright quotas. [112] [113] In 2023, the Court, in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v.