Elite Universities Strategize to Maintain Diversity in Admissions Despite Supreme Court Ruling

Anti-affirmative action activists with the Asian American Coalition for Education protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington on June 29, 2023. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Commentary

It’s no secret that the vast majority of the people who operate U.S. colleges and universities are unhappy about the Supreme Court’s June 29 decisions that the use of race in admissions decisions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection guarantees and Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids recipients of federal funds to discriminate “on the ground of race, color, or national origin.”