Two hotly debated lawsuits argue that race-conscious admissions discriminate against white and Asian American applicants.
. “This will have ripple effects regarding who’s not able to have a seat at the table and enter certain professions,” says Julie Park, a researcher at the University of Maryland in College Park whose work focuses on racial equality in higher education., an organization that represents “more than 20,000 students, parents, and others who believe that racial classifications and preferences in college admissions are unfair”.
Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill, however, argue that affirmative action has helped them to even out the playing field for Black and Hispanic students who have not had the same educational opportunities as others because of systemic racism in the United States.The lawsuits aim to overturn a decision that the Supreme Court made about a case in 2003.
Specifically, the group argues that race-conscious admissions at Harvard discriminate against Asian Americans, and at UNC-Chapel Hill, against both white and Asian American applicants, by unfairly favouring some students of colour, including Black and Hispanic applicants.In many states, some percentage of public and private universities use affirmative action in admissions.
Most US colleges don’t have to worry unduly about affirmative action, however, because they admit more than two-thirds of applicants, according to a, a think tank based in Washington DC. The debates about affirmative action centre around a small number of ‘elite’ institutions with low acceptance rates, says Alvin Tillery, Jr, director of the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
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