Sentences with phrase «use racial quotas»

Racial quotas are not allowed, and universities, as far as I know, are not using racial quotas.

Not exact matches

States would now be required to use a standard methodology for comparing racial and ethnic groups and to use quota - like «reasonable thresholds» allowed by the Department for determining when minorities are over-represented.

A quarter - century after outlawing strict racial quotas in higher education, the U.S. Supreme Court heard powerful arguments last week on whether race can still be one factor among many that colleges use to achieve diversity in admissions.

The 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of racial quotas at the University of Michigan — but approving the use of race as one of many factors in admissions decisions — has had little impact on magnet schools, mainly because most had already abandoned the use of quotas.

But even in that circuit, several school districts and one state (Connecticut) have continued to avoid the use of racial quotas in magnet admissions because they believe using them invites a legal challenge.

A Boston lawyer has challenged the city school system's use of racial quotas in determining which students get admitted to its most prestigious schools.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the educational benefits that flow from having a diverse student body can justify using race as one factor among many in a «holistic» evaluation, while rejecting blunt racial quotas or race - based point systems.

Relying on cherry - picked statutory history, Brennan found that Title VII's plain text did not prohibit collectively bargained, voluntary affirmative action programs that attempt to remedy disparate impact — statistical imbalances in the racial composition of employment groups — even if such plans used quota systems.