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Direct linkJon 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
Richard Cherwitz – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
In this article, the author argues that given the Supreme Court's recent decision to ban affirmative action, there is much to be done to maintain and increase diversity in a race-neutral admissions environment. Those who oversee admissions/enrollment planning and strategic enrollment management must find innovative ways to accomplish this. The…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Admission, Race, Federal Legislation
Marco Tarantino; Jared Reyes – Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2024
The most recent data on the labor force participation rate of individuals who identify as being blind or having vision loss in the United States indicate it is approximately 44%. In 2014, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs promulgated regulations pertaining to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to address the continued…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Disabilities, Blindness, Visual Impairments
Download full textApril J. Anderson – Congressional Research Service, 2024
In its 2023 decision in "Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard," the Supreme Court effectively ended its approval of affirmative action in higher education admissions, holding that practices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) were unlawful. The Court concluded that UNC's practices violated the guarantee of equal…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Admission, Diversity (Institutional), Court Litigation
Natasha Strassfeld; North Cooc – Theory Into Practice, 2024
In this article, we examine and explore how the recent US Supreme Court case on affirmative action within higher education will shape and contextualize disproportionate minority representation and its monitoring within a K-12 public school context for students with disabilities. That is, as the litigation and ultimate judicial decision shape how…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Legislation, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students
R. 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
National Association of Scholars, 2021
The National Association of Scholars believes that higher education should gather scholars and students to cultivate excellence and pursue the truth, transmit the heritage of Western civilization to a new generation, prepare cultured and virtuous citizens, and train students for vocational success. American colleges and universities should embody…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Educational Finance
