Yesterday the United States Supreme Court ruled that higher education institutions cannot use race as a factor in deciding who will be admitted as a student. The 6-3 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v President and Fellows of Harvard College reversed a lower court ruling that upheld the practice. (read the opinion and dissent)
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan and Provost Ian Baucom immediately sent out a statement stating that the institution is still evaluating how the opinion will change its practices.
“We will of course continue to follow the law,” reads their statement. “We will also continue to do everything within our legal authority to recruit and admit a class of students who are diverse across every possible dimension and to make every student feel welcome and included here at UVA.”
Further information about how UVA will respond will be released later this summer. For more information, UVA Today has a Q&A with UVA Law professor Deborah Hellman.
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