WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Thursday said universities and colleges could no longer use a form of race-conscious admissions, rejecting a decades-old precedent in affirmative action policy.
Rather race should be considered in an individual’s experience — conveyed through an essay, interview or otherwise — instead of their identity in composing a demographic make-up of the student body.
The court voted 6-3 in two decisions along ideological lines, ruling that admissions based on affirmative action violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
