Court rules against race-based admission in varsities The U.S. Supreme Court struck down race-conscious student admissions programmes cur...
Court rules against race-based admission in varsities
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down race-conscious student admissions programmes currently used at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.
The affirmative action policies often used to increase the number of Black, Hispanic and other underrepresented minority groups on campuses.
Harvard and UNC have said they use race as only one factor in a host of individualised evaluations for admission without quotas and that curbing its consideration would cause a significant drop in enrolment of students from under-represented groups.
Critics, who have tried to topple these policies for decades, argue these policies are themselves discriminatory, regardless of the circumstances.
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