{"id":1999998,"date":"2023-08-14T12:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T16:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-urges-colleges-to-diversify-despite-supreme-court-ruling-great-urgency\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T12:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T16:58:14","slug":"biden-administration-urges-colleges-to-diversify-despite-supreme-court-ruling-great-urgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-urges-colleges-to-diversify-despite-supreme-court-ruling-great-urgency\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration pushes for college diversity despite Supreme Court ruling: &#8216;Urgent need&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-urges-colleges-to-diversify-despite-supreme-court-ruling-great-urgency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1999998&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Biden Administration Calls for Rethinking Legacy Admissions to Promote Diversity<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration has released new guidelines urging colleges and universities \u200bto reconsider the practice of legacy admissions in order to achieve\u2062 diversity and comply with the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling against affirmative action. These guidelines, jointly created by the Department\u200b of Justice and the Department of\u2062 Education, serve as valuable\u200c resources \u2063for institutions seeking to understand the court&#8217;s decisions in two significant cases: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows \u2063of Harvard\u200d College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North\u2063 Carolina. In both cases, the court ruled that\u200c considering race in admissions violated the Civil Rights Act\u2062 of 1964.<\/p>\n<h3>A Moment\u200d of Urgency in\u2062 Higher Education<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;This is a moment of great urgency in higher education,&#8221; emphasized \u200bSecretary \u200bof Education Miguel Cardona during a call with\u200b reporters. He highlighted the impact of the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision, stating that it has eliminated a\u2064 tool that colleges have long relied on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-urges-colleges-to-diversify-despite-supreme-court-ruling-great-urgency\/\" title=\"Biden administration pushes for college diversity despite Supreme Court ruling: 'Urgent need'\">foster diverse campus communities<\/a> and provide equitable opportunities for students from all backgrounds. Secretary \u2062Cardona expressed concern about potential setbacks on a national scale, citing past instances where banning affirmative action led to\u200d fewer applications and admissions for\u2064 students of color. He emphasized the need to prevent such regression in a nation that is more diverse\u2063 than ever.<\/p>\n<h3>New Guidelines and Recommendations<\/h3>\n<p>The new guidelines, presented in a Q&#038;A format, are accompanied by a &#8220;Dear Colleague&#8221; letter \u2064signed by Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil\u2064 Rights Catherine Lhamon and Kristen\u200b Clarke, the assistant U.S. attorney\u2064 general for the\u2062 DOJ&#8217;s Civil Rights Division. These officials urge colleges and universities to review their policies and identify and reward attributes such\u2063 as hard work, achievement, intellectual curiosity, potential, and determination. They\u2064 emphasize\u200b that there are various ways\u200b to \u2062achieve a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-thomas-takes-aim-at-affirmative-action\/\" title=\"Justice Thomas Takes Aim at Affirmative Action\">racially diverse student body<\/a>, including a reevaluation of legacy admissions.<\/p>\n<p>Legacy admissions, which\u2064 consider\u2063 an applicant&#8217;s \u200dfamily \u2062history with the institution, have faced increased scrutiny following the Supreme Court&#8217;s\u2062 decision. The Biden administration suggests that eliminating this practice \u2062could help ensure racial diversity by avoiding preferential treatment for &#8220;privileged&#8221; applicants who might otherwise take the place\u200c of a minority candidate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Colleges and universities can \u200dexamine admission preferences, such as those based on legacy status or\u200b donor affiliation, that are unrelated to a\u200c prospective applicant&#8217;s individual merit or potential, that further benefit privileged students, and that reduce\u2063 opportunities\u200d for others who \u2062have been foreclosed from such advantages,&#8221; state the officials in their letter.<\/p>\n<h3>Responses and Ongoing Investigations<\/h3>\n<p>Several schools, including Virginia \u2064Tech, have already announced the discontinuation of legacy\u2063 admissions as a means of providing an \u200dadvantage in admissions. \u200dHowever, the University of Virginia has stated its intention to continue the practice.<\/p>\n<p>In response \u200dto complaints from advocacy groups regarding Harvard&#8217;s legacy admissions, the Department of Education has launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-announces-investigation-into-andrew-brown-jr-shooting\/\" title=\"FBI Announces Investigation Into Andrew Brown Jr. Shooting\">civil rights investigation<\/a> into the matter. These groups argue that the practice negatively impacts the prospects of minority applicants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration&#8217;s new guidelines urge colleges to reconsider legacy admissions for diversity and compliance with the Supreme Court&#8217;s ban on affirmative action. The Department of Justice and the Department of Education collaborated on these resources, released Monday, to assist colleges and universities in this endeavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1999999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}