UNC-Chapel Hill bars use of race and sex in admissions

Following the Supreme Court’s ruling that gutted affirmative action, effectively ending race-conscious admissions, the University of North Carolina has voted to bar the use of “race, sex, color or ethnicity” in hiring and admissions.

“I’m confident that we’re taking all the necessary steps to fully comply,” UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said on Friday after the Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill approved the update.

In a three-page resolution, approved by the board's audit committee on Wednesday, it is stated that there will be no “preferential treatment” to any individual or group on the basis of race, according to the News & Observer of Raleigh.

The conservative majority Supreme Court in June rejected race-conscious admissions in colleges and universities by a vote of 6-3.