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The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

Proponents of the ballot initiative say affirmative action for hiring and public university admissions is outmoded.

The Supreme Court also rejected a challenge to a race - conscious admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin, handing supporters of affirmative action a major victory.

The ruling ended an eight - year legal challenge to the affirmative action admissions system used by the University of Texas at Austin brought by Abigail Fisher, who was denied a place in 2008.

Opponents of affirmative action are requesting admissions data from institutions of higher learning to make sure the schools are adhering to the policy of using race as one of many factors rather than having it be the determining factor.

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The study's chief author Daniel Koretz and his colleagues used a simplified model of the University of California admissions process and real test scores to examine the impact of attempts to roll back affirmative action in postsecondary admissions on eight California campuses.

He has been called «the intellectual father of the economic integration movement» in K - 12 schooling, and «arguably the nation's chief proponent of class - based affirmative action in higher education admissions.»

The Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a Michigan measure that banned the use of affirmative action in admission to the state's public universities.

«It was perplexing that the Supreme Court took the case because the University of Texas admission policy seemed in line with what the court had ruled was acceptable in the Michigan case,» says Professor Julie Reuben, pointing out that in Grutter v. Bollinger the Supreme Court supported the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action admissions policy.

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The narrow decision by the Supreme Court was not surprising for many educators considering the complexity of affirmative action cases, but it still raises questions about how this may impact admissions.

We summarize a body of work documenting that when institutions can not consider race in admissions — as has been the case in states that have banned affirmative action via ballot measures or other policies — racial and ethnic diversity has declined across various educational sectors, not just at selective undergraduate institutions, but in the professional fields of law, business, and medicine, as well as other graduate disciplines.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Cashin, author of Place, Not Race, explains how the benefits of race - based admissions decisions are actually outweighed by the social costs, and argues for a return to what she considers the original intent of affirmative action policies: helping people — no matter their race — who have been systemically locked out of opportunity.

But it's important to understand the broader context of U.S. admissions policies when considering affirmative action.

Indeed, colleges and universities are even frequently evaluated on the racial, geographic, and socioeconomic diversity of each incoming class of students, and affirmative action policies in admissions are based on the rationale that the presence of campus diversity enriches the learning environment.

Diversity Challenged, edited by noted researcher Gary Orfield, forecasts that affirmative action's legal and political future may turn on a single question — whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in admissions decisions at colleges and universities.

The U.S. Supreme Court's agreement last week to take up the legality of race - based admissions in higher education sets the stage for a ruling on affirmative action that is likely to reverberate throughout precollegiate schools as well.

After the Supreme Court upheld some forms of race - conscious affirmative action in 2003, UT - Austin quickly reinstated racial preferences in admissions, triggering a challenge that led to the Supreme Court's most recent affirmative - action case.

The Supreme Court may have ruled in Fisher v. University of Texas to uphold affirmative action in college admissions — but that decision won't signal the end of campus conversations about race and diversity.

Given challenges to affirmative action, we need to know how the admissions process works, the role of tests in admissions decisions, and the effects of alternative definitions of diversity on the composition of the admitted student body.

On October 15, Askwith Forums presented a discussion of the case before the United States Supreme Court concerning the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin and its implications for higher education.

Within education, he has conducted studies on teacher evaluation; on the value of school infrastructure spending; on affirmative action in college and graduate school admissions; and on the causes and consequences of racial segregation.

Richard Kahlenberg has been called «the intellectual father of the economic integration movement» in K - 12 schooling, and «arguably the nation's chief proponent of class - based affirmative action in higher education admissions.»

Last week I was invited to speak at the annual conference of the Education Writers Association, with the topic of my panel being the perspective of Asian - Americans on Affirmative Action policies in college admissions.

Not only does this describe an uphill battle, but it serves to illustrate the puzzling priorities we often emphasize — one half of minority children don't complete high school, over one half of third graders can not read at grade level, and our policy and media attention are focused on affirmative action to achieve diversity in admissions as a compelling objective at our two flagship universities!

Jamillah Moore, Ed.D., is the author of Race and College Admissions: A Case for Affirmative Action.

In a 6 - 2 decision today in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action (companion case Schuette v. Cantrell), the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling and upheld a Michigan voter initiative that bans the practice of race - conscious admissions to the state's public universities.

An interesting, timely, and well - informed book on the impact of present efforts to eliminate affirmative action in college and university admissions.

Using administrative data from the UC from before and after the ban on race - contingent admissions policies, we present evidence that UC campuses changed the weight given to SAT scores, grades and family background characteristics after the end of affirmative action, and that these changes were able to substantially (though far from completely) offset the fall in minority admissions rate after the ban on affirmative action.

It is a bit tiresome to have these affirmative action challenges come up, though, given that most of the American universities challenged have much more extensive «legacy» admissions, by which children of alumni or big donors are admitted without meeting the usual academic requirements.

The issues of affirmative action and its opposition is not just about admission, it's about the type of educational institutions and the culture that we create in them.

It could arguably amount to something of an affirmative action program for the socioeconomically disadvantaged, but Richard Sander's research shows that nothing cultivates true law student diversity — ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic or otherwise — better than preferential admission policies for low - income applicants.