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What is affirmative action? “What race-conscious admissions does [is take] into account all of the factors that add to a person’s life story, including their racialized experiences ...
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 pending rulings concerning the two elite schools could end affirmative action programs that have been used by many U.S. colleges and universities for decades to increase their numbers of Black ...
Sowell writes that affirmative action policies encourage non-preferred groups to designate themselves as members of preferred groups [i.e., primary beneficiaries of affirmative action] to take advantage of group preference policies; that they tend to benefit primarily the most fortunate among the preferred group (e.g., upper and middle class ...
Here, we break down further details about the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn affirmative action policies, provide several ways to protest safely, and share what this ruling means for current ...
Michael Wang, whom USA Today described as "a poster child for the anti-affirmative action movement" who had filed discrimination complaints against three universities with the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in 2013 and met with SFFA's founder, later said, "a part of me regrets what I’ve put forward". Wang further ...
The swing vote, Justice Lewis Powell, ruled that schools could not use affirmative action to rectify past racial discrimination and struck down the university's practice of setting aside a certain ...
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