"Those programs have enabled UC to make significant gains in its system-wide diversity," the brief said. In an amicus brief sent to the Supreme Court in support of Harvard and UNC's race-based admissions programs, University of California chancellors said that years of crafting alternative race-neutral policies have fallen short. Here's the upshot: A quarter-century after California banned race-based admissions at public universities, school officials say they haven't been able to meet their diversity and equity goals - despite more than a half billion dollars spent on outreach and alternative admissions standards. Supreme Court justices ruled that the admissions policies at the University of North Carolina, one of the country's oldest public universities, and Harvard University, the country's oldest private university, violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.Īs college admissions offices prepare to tailor their policies to the Supreme Court ruling, California offers lessons on what may be in store for the rest of the country. This week, it happened: The Supreme Court struck down race-based admissions practices at public and private universities and colleges.
Students walk past Royce Hall at the UCLA campus.įor decades, the question of affirmative action - whether colleges should consider race when deciding which students to admit - has been the subject of national debate.Īnd as the nation's highest court has grown more conservative in recent years, court-watchers wondered if it would reverse decades-old precedents allowing affirmative action. University at California Los Angeles is just starting to catch up to the diversity numbers it saw before an affirmative action ban took effect in 1998, according to a university official.
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