Biden’s Education Department to Hold Summit on Race in College Admissions Despite Recent Supreme Court Ban

The U.S. Department of Education has announced it will be holding a one-day summit on college admissions and racial diversity dubbed the “National Summit on Equal Opportunity in Higher Education” in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling banning the use of racial preferences in college admissions. 

On June 29, by a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court ruled that “affirmative action” and other race-preferential systems of discrimination in college admissions violated the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Chief Justice John Roberts stated in his opinion that white and...