How affirmative action ruling could impact HBCUs
Universities across the country are responding after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action policies.
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Universities across the country are responding after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action policies.
Essentially exempting military schools from the ruling, and, wolf, that was spelled out in a footnote in the majority opinion. justice ketanji brown jackson called that out saying this court is prioritizing diversity for the bunker instead of the board room, as she put it. there is a lot of gray area in this opinion. it will likely lead to litigation in the future about just how far school might take race into consideration, especially when students mention it in personal essays. >> thank you so much for that report. let's get to more of the impact of the historic ruling with the president of ...
Fact that we were beginning to have a different type of discourse, and i, back then, said, and i will continue to say this, that the caravan for social justice that many of us are on, including an institution like howard university have taken on a lot more passengers, but they would leave. and i think what the supreme court is saying is that they can leave in a rush, they can leave us without gas, without new tires, without a carburetor, and i think that's unfortunate. what they're doing now is actually putting impediments in front of that journey, that equality, to social justice and that's p...
Commitment to an underserved population, speaks to their commitment or their hardships while they have lived such a life, as i believe justice roberts was trying to speak to, and, yes, what's interesting about that is that 79 of our 125 students a couple of years ago in entering class, howard was the only institution they got into. i think that those things can now be questioned on the basis of this ruling as people continue to push the envelope around how race is used and i think that that could be very problematic, so i think this opens a can of worms. i think that path to the opinion in pop...
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