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A lot of what you’ve heard about affirmative action is wrong

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in college admissions is certain to ripple across higher education for years. Debate in the lead-up to the court’s decision has ignited passions about accessibility, fairness and merit in the complex admissions process — and stirred up some misconceptions about affirmative…

Los Angeles Times

Key quotes from Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling: No to race, yes to discrimination victims

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s opinion about affirmative action rejects the use of race as an admissions factor at colleges and universities.

Los Angeles Times

Why the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action matters

Only a small portion of U.S. colleges have selective admissions, where race-conscious admissions can make a difference in who gets in. But the impacts of banning affirmative action are far wider.

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Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling ‘an attack on people of color,’ Illinois education leaders say

The 6-3 decision by the high court’s conservative majority “will make it more difficult for Northwestern to achieve one of our imperatives — the promotion of diversity, inclusion and belonging on our campuses,” University President Michael Schill said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Biden condemns Supreme Court striking down affirmative action: ‘This is not a normal court’

President Biden strongly disagreed with the Court’s decision saying, ‘We cannot let this decision be the last word’

The Independent UK

Affirmative action ruling shows ‘willful ignorance of our reality’, critics say

NAACP accuses court of bowing to ‘personally held beliefs of an extremist minority’ as race-conscious admissions ends

The Guardian - US

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivers searing civil rights lesson in dissent to affirmative action ruling

Her rebuke condemns conservative majority’s ‘let-them-eat-cake obliviousness’ to legacy of racism

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Affirmative action's rejection will impact school diversity

The Supreme Court's ruling deems that diversity is no longer a compelling interest for university admission.

Axios

Editorial: Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban is a catastrophic blow to the American dream

The Supreme Court‘s decision Thursday blocking higher educational institutions from using affirmative action policies when considering student applications will have catastrophic effects at a time when the nation is still grappling with generations of racism.

Los Angeles Times

Joe Biden slams Supreme Court in fiery speech dispelling myths about affirmative action

America's colleges and universities can no longer weigh race and gender when considering a student's eligibility for enrollment after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action on Thursday

Daily Mirror

KBJ torches affirmative action ruling

The “visibly angry” justice said Thomas “ignites too many straw men to list”

Salon

Watch as Biden responds to Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action

Watch as Joe Biden speaks on the US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action.

The Independent UK

Noah Feldman: Affirmative action is radical Supreme Court's latest casualty

Affirmative action died Thursday at the hands of the Supreme Court’s conservative constitutional revolution. In a 6-3 decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court overturned nearly 50 years of precedent and held that it’s unconstitutional for universities to take account of racial diversity in their admissions.

Tribune News Service

Obamas disagree with Supreme Court affirmative action ruling

The former president said “affirmative action wasn’t perfect. But it allowed generations of students like Michelle and me to prove we belonged.”

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Fortune

The Supreme Court can end affirmative action–but it can’t reverse the course of history

America is changing. Future generations of college students will be less white, and less privileged–regardless of the Supreme Court's decision.

Reason

The Unsurprising Affirmative Action Decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

The Court's core ruling is unsurprising, but its future effects are uncertain.

Los Angeles Times

‘We’re really worried.’ What do colleges do now after affirmative action ruling?

The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision Thursday striking down affirmative action has intensified angst among many higher-education leaders who say extending access to a diversity of students could become a challenging, high-cost and labor-intensive effort steeped in uncertainties.

Axios

What Trump, DeSantis and other 2024 candidates said about SCOTUS affirmative action decision

The court ruled 6-3 against the admissions processes at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.

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Daily Mirror

Affirmative action in universities officially ENDED by Supreme Court in landmark decision

The landmark decision overturns long-standing precedent that has benefitted Black and Latino students in higher education

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Supreme Court ends race-conscious college admissions. How will it change California education?

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.

Tribune News Service

Can colleges admit racially diverse classes without affirmative action?

DALLAS -- College administrators are reevaluating how they can admit racially diverse classes, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled colleges are no longer allowed to consider race in the admissions process.

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

US Supreme court rules against affirmative action in college admissions

Court overturns plans allowing colleges to consider applicant’s race during admissions process

Roll Call

Biden blasts Supreme Court as not ‘normal’ after affirmative action ruling - Roll Call

As Democrats across the country blasted the 6-3 opinion, Republicans lauded the new restrictions imposed by the Supreme Court.

France 24

US Supreme Court rules against race-conscious university admissions

The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.

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