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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 ...
“Beginning today, America’s colleges and universities have a legal and moral obligation to strictly abide by the Supreme Court’s opinion,” Edward Blum, founder and president of the ...
America’s leading civil rights organizations condemned the conservative-dominated Supreme Court for ending affirmative action programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.
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 ...
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The decision was the only legally challenged affirmative-action policy to survive the courts. However, this ruling has led to confusion among universities and lower courts alike regarding the status of affirmative action across the nation. In 2012, Fisher v. University of Texas reached the Supreme Court. [20]
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 U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide by the end of this month the fate of race-conscious collegiate admission policies, one of the major disputes - also including cases involving LGBT ...