A decision is due shortly on two related cases involving the admissions practices at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. To better understand what’s at stake, ScienceInsider outlines seven things to know. ⬇️
In 2014, an advocacy group, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. , sued Harvard and UNC. It claimed that Harvard was violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by using race-based criteria to discriminate against Asian American applicants. SFFA said UNC, a public institution, was violating the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution—which prohibits racial discrimination by government entities—by using of race as a factor in admissions.
“There’s a political war over DEI going on across the country,” Flores says, pointing to her own state, where the legislature recently voted to eliminate all DEI offices at public universities. “What that tells me is that states will still be able to do what they want even if the court says the use of race is permissible.
She and other experts on diversity think the justices will leave room for efforts that draw on the concerns and life experiences of minorities to create a more inclusive academic environment without making race an eligibility criterion. One example, Griffin says, might be a so-called “cluster hiring” of faculty to study marginalized communities, an interdisciplinary research topic “that we know is of interest to scholars of color.
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