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Institutions enact policies that go beyond court ruling due to abundance of caution or as part of ‘politically motivated agendas’
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Institutions enact policies that go beyond court ruling due to abundance of caution or as part of ‘politically motivated agendas’
The contrast in responses to the Supreme Court decision between Harvard, an elite private university, and UNC, an elite public university, is intriguing.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees voted Thursday to prohibit the institution from considering race, sex or ethnicity in both admissions and hiring decisions, according to the Raleigh News & Observer.
Weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down their school's race-conscious admissions plan as violating the Constitution, the board of North Carolina's flagship, public university has voted to strictly bar the use of "race, sex, color or ethnicity" in admissions and hiring decisions.
The board of University of North Carolina voted to bar the use of “race, sex, color or ethnicity” in admissions and hiring decisions.