READ the Supreme Court landmark decision on affirmative action in FULL
READ the landmark Supreme Court affirmative action decision IN FULL: How the justices ruled on a decision that will fundamentally change college admissions
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that colleges can no longer take race into account when considering potential students.
The judges decided in a 6-3 opinion that the race-based affirmative action admissions policies of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) are unconstitutional.
The decision, which is years in the making, means universities across the country must revamp the programs they use to consider thousands of applicants.
The ruling ends decades-old “affirmative action” policies designed to boost the number of black and Hispanic students in colleges.
Now universities will have to look for new ways to better integrate minority groups and ensure representation among students.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion.
“Because the Harvard and UNC admissions programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives that justify the use of race, inevitably use race in a negative way, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful endpoints, those admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause,” he wrote.
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that colleges can no longer take race into account when considering potential students
An activist from Students For Fair Admissions, who has taken the case to the Supreme Court, unrolls a banner on the stairs