DePaul, Loyola and the University of Chicago took public stances on Harvard and UNC cases, urging Supreme Court justices to uphold affirmative action.
Chicagoan OiYan Poon and her daughter spent Monday morning demonstrating on the steps of the Supreme Court.
"It was really important for me to be here because I've been working on research on race and college access for 10, 15 years," said Poon, who is currently a visiting professor of education at the University of Maryland, College Park.Students for Fair Admissions sued the schools in 2014, alleging discrimination against Asian American applicants.
"Mr. Blum decided a long time ago that having white applicants challenge the systems is a less sympathetic victim than say an Asian American applicant," said Alvin Tillery, who is the head of the Center for the Study of DiversityIn the 1960s many colleges and universities began taking into account the racial background of applicants in order to diversify their campuses.
"The thing that really stands out to you is when you look at the development of affirmative action and college admissions over time is just how limited a role that race plays today compared to the role that it has used to play. And that's because the court has said that it must play a limited role," he said.
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