Biden administration releases guidance for colleges after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling

The Biden medication released caller guidance connected Monday connected however colleges tin "lawfully execute a divers pupil body" successful the aftermath of the Supreme Court's ruling striking down affirmative action.

In a "Dear Colleague" missive and a questions and answers page, the U.S. Department of Education outlined what policies and practices for promoting a divers pupil assemblage stay ineligible aft the Supreme Court decided that the information of contention successful assemblage admissions violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

"The resources issued by the Biden-Harris Administration contiguous volition supply assemblage leaders with much-needed clarity connected however they tin lawfully beforehand and enactment diversity, and grow entree to acquisition accidental for all," U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said successful a statement. "This is lone the archetypal step."

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The precocious court's ruling was considered a monolithic blow to decades-old efforts to boost enrollment of minorities astatine American universities done policies that accounted for applicants' race.

Experts predicted the Supreme Court's ruling would promote colleges to enactment much value connected students' household income and their determination inheritance to diversify their pupil bodies.

Schools whitethorn besides trust little connected standardized trial scores oregon adjacent destruct SAT and ACT requirements, which have reinforced contention gaps, different studies show.

Colleges tin inactive see idiosyncratic essays astir "how contention affected his oregon her life, beryllium it done discrimination, inspiration oregon otherwise," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote successful the ruling, adjacent though "universities whitethorn not simply found done exertion essays oregon different means the authorities we clasp unlawful today."

The Education Department said it volition merchandise a study adjacent period with further details connected however colleges tin usage different measures of adversity, including fiscal means, wherever a pupil grew up and went to precocious school, arsenic good arsenic idiosyncratic experiences of hardship, including radical discrimination, successful their admissions decisions.

Colleges are apt to adhd questions on these lines to their admissions applications, according to higher acquisition adept Mark Kantrowitz, and much whitethorn besides extremity the argumentation of giving preferential attraction to legacy students, which is progressively nether occurrence aft the ruling connected affirmative action.

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