By the end of this month, the Supreme Court of the U.S. will rule on whether to allow colleges and universities to consider race in the admissions process.
The two cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina, were brought to the supreme court by Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit membership group seeking to overturn “unfair, unnecessary, and unconstitutional” affirmative action policies.
Affirmative action refers to policies in the admissions process that aim at increasing the number of racial minority students on campus.
NYU Law professor and ACLU president Deborah Archer argues in an informational article posted on the NYU website, titled "What happens if the Supreme Court bans affirmative action?" that a ban could have a profoundly negative effect on diversity on college campuses.
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“Affirmative action is ground zero in a larger fight around racial justice,” Archer writes. “It is one step in a much larger effort to impose a colorblind framework on all of society and to make it impossible for public policy to address the deep and profound racial inequality. Colorblindness is the antithesis of diversity and it exacerbates racial injustice by preventing all of us from grappling with the ways race shapes our lives, experiences, and opportunities.”
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