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Direct linkR. Lawrence Purdy – Academic Questions, 2023
In "Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College ("SFFA")," the United States Supreme Court revisited an issue that had been litigated before it twenty years earlier. In two separate cases brought against the University of Michigan, the issue was whether it was a violation of the Constitution…
Descriptors: Military Schools, Racial Discrimination, Racial Factors, Court Litigation
"Affirmative Action" and Equal Protection in Higher Education. CRS Report R45481, Version 3. Updated
Download full textBack, Christine J.; Hsin, JD S. – Congressional Research Service, 2019
The last several years have seen renewed debate over the role that race plays in higher education--a debate over "affirmative action." The report first considers "affirmative action" in its original sense: the "mandatory" race-conscious measures that the federal courts have imposed on "de jure" segregated…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Equal Protection, Higher Education, Federal Courts
