Daily News | Penn students lament SCOTUS decision on race-based admissions: ‘All of our progress is disappearing’
, Penn President Liz Magill and Provost John L. Jackson Jr. acknowledged the ruling will require changes in the university’s admissions process, which for decades has considered race as one factor in the review process.
But in the hours after the decision was released, they did not detail what those changes may look like. “We are studying the court’s opinion to ensure that we admit students in compliance with the law,” they wrote. “Second, we remain firm in our belief that our academic community is at its best when it is diverse across many dimensions.”decision on the admissions blog“What will not change,” she wrote, “is our commitment to creating a diverse community as central to the educational experience at Penn. ...
In the court cases, plaintiffs had accused both Harvard and the University of North Carolina of discriminating against Asian and/or white students through the use of race-conscious admissions policies. The lawsuits were brought by Students for Fair Admissions, a group founded byAbdi said she “immediately couldn’t focus” at her finance internship when the Supreme Court decision was announced Thursday morning.
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