SCOTUS Holds Federal Law Bars Race-Based University Admissions
Highlights
Universities may not adopt “race-based admissions programs in which some students may obtain preferences on the basis of race alone”
Universities may consider “an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise”
But, universities “may not simply establish through application essays or other means” a system of admissions that treats students “on the basis of race”
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated ruling in a pair of cases challenging Harvard College’s and the University of North Carolina’s (UNC’s) affirmative action admissions policies, holding that such policies violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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