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President Biden delivers remarks following Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard Andrea Campbell, the attorney general of Massachusetts, reacts to the decision. In a speech, president Joe Biden said, "This is not a normal court" and that the United States needed "a new path forward that is consistent with the law." [72] [73]
Students for Fair Admissions ( SFFA) is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization founded in 2014 by conservative activist Edward Blum for the purpose of challenging affirmative action admissions policies at schools. [ 1][ 2] Blum is also the founder of Project on Fair Representation, with a goal to end racial classifications in education, voting ...
Bacow has defended Harvard's position in Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard, a case the Supreme Court agreed to hear in January 2022, that the university should be permitted to consider race as a factor in its process of considering applicants for admission. [34] In a statement about the case, Bacow said:
This summer, the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard showcased the comparatively superior academic credentials of many Asian applicants to elite ...
Edward Blum (litigant) Edward Jay Blum (born 1952) is an American conservative litigant who opposes classifications and preferences based on race and ethnicity. [ 1] Blum is the director of the Project on Fair Representation which he founded in 2005. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill says he is the only member of this organization ...
[10] [11] The Supreme Court in 2023 explicitly rejected race-based affirmative action in college admissions in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. The Court held that affirmative action programs "lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial ...
Peter S. Arcidiacono was born in Oregon in 1971. He graduated from Tigard High School in 1990, completed a B.S. in Economics in 1993 at Willamette University, and received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1999 under the supervision of John Kennan. Arcidiacono has spent his entire academic career at Duke ...
In May, FAIR filed an amicus brief in the case Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College , arguing that group preferences are inconsistent with equality and individual rights and that they'd result in negative effects on students such as stigma, division, resentment, and dehumanization.