Inside Higher Ed: Mixed Messages on Affirmative Action
The first reaction to Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling for many officials at colleges that practice affirmative action was relief. The ruling, as expected, rejected programs under which schoolchildren in Louisville and Seattle have been assigned to schools based on race. While the case didn’t involve college affirmative action, many of the legal briefs in the case cited Grutter v. Bollinger, the Supreme Court’s landmark 2003 ruling involving the University of Michigan’s law school, which upheld the right of colleges in some circumstances to consider race in admissions.
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