Headline Roundup October 1, 2019
Judge Rules Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process is Constitutional
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New York Post (News)
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Harvard can continue to use race as a factor in its admissions process.
An anti-affirmative-action group, Students for Fair Admissions, sued the Ivy League university in 2014, arguing that the school was admitting members of under-represented ethnic groups at the expense of more qualified Asian-Americans.
But Judge Allison Burroughs wrote in her decision, “Harvard’s admission program passes constitutional muster,” according to NPR.
“Ensuring diversity at Harvard relies, in part, on race-conscious admissions,” Burroughs added.
The student group is expected to appeal, and experts predict...
Bloomberg
Harvard University defeated an anti-affirmative action group’s lawsuit to stop the school from using race as a factor in admissions, in a ruling that’s likely to be challenged all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the nation’s oldest college doesn’t discriminate against Asian-Americans, as the suit claimed, and that its consideration of race as one criterion among many in its admissions decisions is lawful. The suit, brought in 2014 by Students for Fair Admissions, claimed that Harvard illicitly engaged in “racial balancing”...
The Washington Post
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Harvard University does not discriminate against Asian Americans in undergraduate admissions, handing the school a victory in a lawsuit that marks one of the latest chapters in the affirmative action debate.
U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs rejected claims of a plaintiff that Harvard violates the law as it considers race in selecting an incoming freshman class. While Harvard’s “admissions process may be imperfect,” Burroughs wrote, the judge concluded that statistical disparities among racial groups of applicants “are not the result of any racial...
