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UNC-Chapel Hill is at the center of one of the cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, with the university defending its use of race as one of several factors it ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against UNC-Chapel Hill’s race-conscious undergraduate admissions policy, saying the university’s consideration of race in admissions is a violation of ...
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and three of his predecessors have submitted an amicus brief supporting UNC-Chapel Hill in its affirmative action admissions case being heard by the United States ...
Rolling admission is a policy used by many colleges to admit freshmen to undergraduate programs. Many law schools in the United States also have rolling admissions policies. [ 1 ] Under rolling admission, candidates are invited to submit their applications to the university anytime within a large window.
With its companion case, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, the Supreme Court effectively overruled Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) [6] and Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), which validated some affirmative action in college admissions provided that race had a limited role in decisions. [b]
On October 13, 2017, the NCAA announced it would not levy penalties against North Carolina, saying it "could not conclude that the University of North Carolina violated N.C.A.A. academic rules." [64] [65] [66] In their defense, North Carolina cited cases where Auburn and Michigan had similar misconduct and the NCAA did not act. [64]
The ruling wouldn’t only bring UNC’s nearly decade-long legal battle to defend affirmative action in undergraduate admissions to an end — it could also upend admissions practices nationwide.
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