Dear Colleagues,
Like many of you, we have been watching the Supreme Court closely anticipating its decisions on race-conscious admissions and President Biden’s student debt forgiveness proposal.
Yesterday, in a 6-3 decision divided along ideological lines, the court ended affirmative action in college admissions, striking down the programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. Although the ruling does not impose an outright ban on race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities, the constitutional test it establishes, particularly its focus on a lack of a meaningful end point, will effectively end such programs, while leaving the door open for institutions of higher education to consider an applicant’s lived experiences, including those referencing race.
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