And each one repeated similar platitudes about how the Supreme Court’s decision has not affected its core values: these schools would continue to build diverse communities drawing on a wide range of experiences and backgrounds, because diversity is essential to both the experience of campus life and effective research. They noted that they had all devoted special working groups to understanding the law and building best practices for advancing diversity without affirmative action, which would provide campuses with updates in the future. These institutions echoed similar refrains about each one’s commitment to diversity and inclusion and working to ensure a diverse student body within the bounds of the law. Indeed, a chorus of institutions across the country issued statements that expressed their “disappointment” and “disagreement” with the ruling. Supreme Court’s decision to significantly narrow how race can be considered in admissions policies, we are deeply disheartened by the court’s ruling,” the University of Michigan added. “Although the U-M is not directly affected by the U.S. “Today, the US Supreme Court attempted to pull our nation backwards in the journey toward equity and civil rights with an egregious ruling that will have serious impacts on students and families seeking the American dream of opportunity through higher education,” State University of New York Chancellor John B. Eisgruber wrote in a statement reacting to the ruling. “This morning’s opinion is unwelcome and disappointing, but it is not unexpected,” Princeton University president Christopher L. The response to the ruling from higher education institutions was nothing short of bitter indignation. “Unwelcome and disappointing”: Universities react to the decision This campaign is likely to set up another legal fight over how this ruling is to be enforced. However, universities and activist groups are intent on finding ways to maintain their diversity agenda, even if it means circumventing the law of the land.
University of North Carolina, which found that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions are unconstitutional as well as in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. The nation’s highest court issued two rulings in companion cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. The Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action in college admissions in June, but the battle to put the ruling into practice is just beginning. The following is the first of a two-part analysis examining colleges’ immediate responses to this summer’s Supreme Court decision against affirmative action in college admissions.
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