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Students navigate post-affirmative action world, uncertain about racial identity

Navigating the post-affirmative action college admission world, students of color debate how to address racial identity in their applications. A creative a...

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"Judges Have Long Deferred to Academe. That's Changing."

A very interesting article by Prof. Steve Sanders (Indiana), who is also an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a scholar of sexual orientation and the law; it's in the Chronicle of Higher Education, but also available without the need for registration here. An excerpt: During the Red Scare of…

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Racial Classification in Higher Education Admissions Before and After SFFA

This is my new article, forthcoming in the SMU Law Review. Larry Solum's legal blog says its "highly recommended," and you can download it here. Meanwhile, here is the abstract: Hundreds of law review articles have discussed the legality of affirmative action programs. Virtually all of them begin with the…

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The Next Target in the War on Affirmative Action? Law Firms

The move to weed out equitable hiring is part of a much longer history of exclusion in both the US and Canada

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Colleges should step up their diversity efforts after affirmative action ruling, the government says

The Biden administration is asking America’s colleges to step up their efforts to make campuses more racially diverse

The Independent UK

West Point sued over using race as an admissions factor in the wake of landmark Supreme Court ruling

West Point has been sued in federal court for using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group behind the lawsuit that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions

The Independent UK

West Point sued by anti-affirmative action group for considering race in admissions

Students For Fair Admissions (SFFA) claimed West Point violated the Fifth Amendment by using race-concious admissions

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Students for Fair Admissions and the End of Racial Classification as We Know It (Re-Post)

[I'm reposting this because the linked article disappeared from SSRN's website soon after I posted it, until a copyright permission issue was resolved.] My article, Students for Fair Admissions and the End of Racial Classification as We Know It, has been published in the new Cato Supreme Court Review. Here…

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Teaching Notes on Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard

Michael Stokes Paulsen, Michael McConnell, Sam Bray, and I recently completed and posted the 2023 online supplement to our constitutional law casebook: The Constitution of the United States. (I shilled for the book earlier on this blog -- at the start of the Trump administration -- as "A new constitutional…

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How Affirmative Action Lost at the Supreme Court

Preferential college admissions violated the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

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Biden administration urges colleges to pursue racial diversity without affirmative action

New guidance from the Biden administration urges colleges to use a range of strategies to promote racial diversity on their campuses after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in admissions

The Independent UK

Biden administration offers more guidance on college admissions

The Biden administration on Monday urged colleges and universities to reconsider some policies such as preferences for legacy students.

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‘Affirmative action for the privileged’: why Democrats are fighting legacy admissions

Critics argue that university’s preference toward legacy applicants exacerbates existing inequalities in higher education

The Guardian - US

The corporate diversity backlash is here after affirmative action ruling

The Supreme Court's affirmative action decision is already affecting corporate diversity efforts.

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Ending affirmative action does nothing to end discrimination against Asian Americans

In two cases challenging the use of race in college admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the educational benefit of racial diversity is no longer what it once called a “compelling interest.”

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Justice Sotomayor Defends Racial and Ethnic Classifications Relied Upon by Harvard and UNC

She doesn't do a very good job of it.

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Immigration Restrictions as Affirmative Action for Natives

Cato Institute immigration policy expert Alex Nowrasteh explains the close parallels between a policy most conservatives hate, and one most them reflexively support.

Chicago Sun-Times

Western Illinois University revokes, then reinstates scholarships for students of color

Universities’ back-and-forth response speaks to the confusion the Supreme Court’s ruling is causing and confirms a fear by many that the decision might impact non-admissions programs.

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With affirmative action out, North Carolina's flagship school bars use of race, sex in admissions

The board of North Carolina’s flagship public university has voted to strictly bar the use of “race, sex, color or ethnicity” in admissions and hiring decisions following recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings striking down affirmative action in forming student bodies

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts uses conflicting views of race to resolve America's history of racial discrimination

In two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 summer recess, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote majority opinions that involved the use of race.

The Independent UK

Harvard faces Education Department civil rights investigation over legacy admissions

Federal probe follows complaint into ‘discriminatory’ admissions process for alumni family and donors

Fortune

The war on DEI is the beginning of a coordinated attack on the Civil Rights Act of 1964

The open letter by Republican attorneys general to Fortune 100 companies is the opening salvo in efforts to redefine what constitutes racial discrimination.

Chicago Sun-Times

With affirmative action gone, states have a duty to eliminate inequity in public schools

Illinois, for instance, has over-relied on local property taxes to fund K-12 education, effectively tying educational quality to local property wealth that is markedly lower in segregated Black communities.

The Independent UK

GOP attorneys general shift the battle over affirmative action to the workplace

Thirteen Republican state attorneys general are cautioning CEOs of the 100 biggest U.S. companies on the legal consequences for using race as a factor in hiring and employment practices

The Independent UK

Justice Kavanaugh seeks to dispel the notion that the Supreme Court is partisan

Justice Brett Kavanaugh points to the mixed decisions that emerged from the U_S_ Supreme Court this term as he seeks to dispel notions of a partisan high court, He told a judicial conference in Minnesota on Thursday that the high court is “an institution of law, not of politics, not…

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