The Supreme Court voted on Thursday, June 29 to end race-based considerations for affirmative action. The ruling passed in a 6-3 majority vote.
Affirmative action as a policy was started to promote equality in higher education, giving qualified college applicants access to an education that might be denied to them for circumstances outside of their control.
The June 29 decision reverses five generations of progress. It strips away an essential promise to cultivate diverse student bodies, to ensure the next generation of leaders receive fair and quality training for their professional pursuits.
The decision will increase the chances that non-white students will be overlooked and alienated in the admissions process.
Discrimination based on race, gender, or sexuality creates a distraction in the process of personal development and is a hindrance to the goals of education. To rip away policy designed to reduce these distractions, these attacks, suggests tone deafness on the part of the court. It is a betrayal of students whose goal is to change their narratives from one of disenfranchisement to agency.
Efforts to repair centuries of inequality have been disrupted by misguided efforts to redefine the principles of inclusion and to change our concept of who deserves recognition and reward on United States college campuses.
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View a statement by President Joe Biden.
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