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In Harvard, SFFA asked if Harvard's admission practices were in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act given possible race-neutral selection processes, while in North Carolina, they asked if a university can reject a race-neutral admission process if they believe they need to protect the diversity of the student body and quality of ...
The court’s ruling also applies to Harvard University’s race-conscious admissions policy, which had been the subject of a separate, but similar, lawsuit filed by SFFA on the same day in 2014 ...
SFFA petitioned the Supreme Court to take up the Harvard case in February 2021, and in November asked the court to take up the UNC case alongside it, calling the UNC case a “companion” to the ...
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Free Harvard, Fair Harvard" was a campaign centered on electing a slate of candidates to the Harvard Board of Overseers started by Ron Unz in 2016. Along with Unz, the candidates included Lee Cheng, Stuart Taylor, Jr. , Stephen Hsu , and Ralph Nader .
The groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education claiming that Harvard's preferences for "legacy" applicants violates a federal law banning race discrimination for programs th
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to formerly enslaved Americans following the American Civil War.
The Board of Governors for the University of North Carolina System voted Thursday to repeal and replace its existing diversity and inclusion policy that applies to the 17 schools the board oversees.