US Supreme Court bans race-based university admission
US universities are no longer allowed to consider an applicant’s race or ethnicity as a factor for admission. – EPA pic, June 30, 2023.
THE US Supreme Court yesterday banned the use of race and ethnicity in university admissions, dealing a major blow to a decades-old practice that boosted educational opportunities for African-Americans and other minorities. One year after overturning the guarantee of a woman’s right to have an abortion, the court’s conservative majority again demonstrated its readiness to scrap liberal policies set in law since the 1960s.
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