News Colleges anxiously await a landmark affirmative action decision by the Supreme Court

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Colleges anxiously await a landmark Supreme Court decision on affirmative action

Facing a possible ban on considering race in admissions, some top schools are devising alternative ways to foster diversity on campus.

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Facing a possible ban on considering race in admissions, some top schools are devising alternative ways to foster diversity on campus.

Late June is normally a peaceful time on college campuses. Not this year.

On Zoom calls, in working groups and in text chains, officials at elite schools are anxiously preparing. Within days, the Supreme Court could bar them from considering race as a factor in the admissions process.

“The truth is many colleges and universities have been preparing for this day for a long time,” Danielle Holley, the incoming president of Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts, said in an interview.

Holley, who was dean of the Howard University School of Law for the last nine years, is well-versed in the legal arguments for and against using race in college admissions. A daughter of two academics, she has been studying the case law since she was a young law student. Now, she’s focused on the practical implications of what the justices might do.

The next scheduled day for the Supreme Court to issue rulings is Tuesday, with more rulings expected later in the week. The justices are considering a pair of affirmative action cases arising from challenges to the admissions processes at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.

 

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Based but they need to stop giving it to foids as well, not just minorities.