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Harvard and North Carolina were decided jointly on June 29, 2023, with the Court ruling that race-based admissions adopted by both Harvard University and UNC were unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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 ...
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 ...
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In Brown v.Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled segregation by race in public schools to be unconstitutional. In the following fifteen years, the court issued landmark rulings in cases involving race and civil liberties, but left supervision of the desegregation of Southern schools mostly to lower courts. [1]
[15] [non-primary source needed] Websites were set up to solicit complainants in connection with Harvard, the University of North Carolina, and also the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In November 2014, Students for Fair Admissions, led by Blum, filed federal lawsuits against Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. The lawsuit against Harvard alleged ...
Harvard had initially said it was going to maintain its test-optional policy through the entering class of the fall of 2026. Under the change announced Thursday, students applying to Harvard for fall 2025 admission will be required to submit standardized test scores from the SAT or ACT exams to satisfy the testing component of the application.
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action programs at the University of North Carolina and Harvard University.