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J. Cody Nielsen; Monica Sanford – Journal of College and Character, 2024
Higher education in the 2020s remains deeply divided on the role of religion, or what the Council on the Advancement of Standards (CAS) in 2023 describes as "religious, secular, and spiritual identities." In two previous articles in this Journal, one 2010 article by the late Peter Magolda and one in 2014 by Perry Glanzer, detail the ways…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Religious Factors, School Community Relationship, Christianity
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Jon S. Iftikar; David H. K. Nguyen – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions "Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College" (2023) and "Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina et al." (2023), hereafter collectively referred to as "SFFA v. Harvard," have garnered attention, especially among…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Affirmative Action, College Admission, Civil Rights Legislation
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Preston Green; Bruce Baker; Suzanne Eckes – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
Between 2017 and 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court examined three cases that involved states that tried to limit the use of public money to support religious-affiliated schools. The Supreme Court found a violation of the Free Exercise Clause in all three cases. Although not the focus of the Court's opinions, these cases may have created avenues for…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Religion, Court Litigation, Racism
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Kevin Welner – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
The growth of state laws creating private school vouchers and charter schools has mounting and alarming ramifications for students' rights, and those ramifications are shaped by a complex and shifting set of legal rules. This article explains the interplay between the increase of these school-choice programs, the U.S. Supreme Court's recent…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Vouchers, Charter Schools, Religious Schools