The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether to take up a discrimination case brought against Harvard University over the Ivy League school’s “race-conscious” admission policy. The case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, has been scheduled for discussion on June 10. If four or more justices vote to revisit the issue, then arguments will likely be heard in the fall. The case was first raised in 2014 by advocacy group Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), on behalf of a coalition of students who claimed to have been rejected from Harvard because of their Asian ancestry—a violation of Title VI, the federal law prohibiting racial discrimination in education programs that receive federal funding. In February, three months after the First Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Harvard and upheld the university’s “race-conscious” admission practices, the SFFA filed a petition (pdf) to the Supreme Court, seeking to reignite the seven-year-long legal …
Supreme Court to Consider Case Alleging Harvard Anti-Asian Bias in Admissions
May 25, 2021
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