Supreme Court Set to Hear Cases Challenging Affirmative Action in College Admissions
North Carolina’s flagship university in Chapel Hill is a curious place to make that case.
On a recent, brilliant fall day in Chapel Hill, students talked about what they see as the benefits and drawbacks of affirmative action in college admissions. Joy Jiang, a 19-year-old sophomore from Harrisburg, North Carolina, and co-director of the affirmative action group, said recent racial tensions on campus that she described as a backlash after the statue came down, have scared away some students of color from vocalizing their support for affirmative action.
Students for Fair Representation also makes repeated use of the June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protection for abortion to bolster its arguments that the court should jettison its affirmative action precedents.strongly suggests the court would be willing to impose an “all-out ban” on considering race in college admissions, said Paulette Granberry Russell, president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education.
Jackson is sitting out the Harvard case because she was on an advisory board until recently. But she is taking part in the North Carolina case, which strongly suggests the court would use that case if it ends up making a major pronouncement on affirmative action.
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