The Biden administration released new guidance on Monday for higher education institutions to legally consider a student’s race during admission in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ban on affirmative action.
“This is a moment of great urgency in higher education,” Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona told reporters Monday morning.
Just before the nation’s highest court broke for recesses at the end of June, SCOTUS issued a landmark ruling that said race-based admissions programs at Harvard University violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the University of North Carolina programs violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Students for Fair Admissions sued the elite schools, accusing them of unfairly factoring race into their admissions processes, pointing to the high test scores of rejected Asian-American and white applicants. The group argued that Harvard violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination by schools that receive federal funding. In the other case, the group accused the UNC of violating the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause by considering race in its admissions process.
“We know what has happened at colleges when individual states have banned affirmative action in the past,” Cardona reportedly said during a press call on Monday. “Fewer students of color applied, and fewer students of color were admitted. We cannot afford that kind of backpedaling on a national scale.”
Democrats always need racist policies
We have already had Diversity 60 + years & Only the Whites since then are Discriminated
against called Affirmative Action !!!!!
Ummm… yeah, I get right on that guidance from Biden. Talk about a fools errant.
Guidance for Biden > To PRISON for TREASON !!!!!