{"id":2244824,"date":"2024-05-15T03:53:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T07:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/when-scotus-nuked-affirmative-action-universities-just-took-it-underground\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T04:02:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T08:02:07","slug":"when-scotus-nuked-affirmative-action-universities-just-took-it-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/when-scotus-nuked-affirmative-action-universities-just-took-it-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"When Supreme Court Ended Affirmative Action, Universities Went Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fwhen-scotus-nuked-affirmative-action-universities-just-took-it-underground%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=2244824&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--><p>The Supreme \u2064Court&#8217;s decision in the Students for Fair Admissions case seemingly signaled the end of affirmative action.\u2062 Although efforts to bypass\u200c this ruling with race-conscious practices persist, alternative approaches like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paul-driessen-house-democrats-cancel-looming-embarrassment\/\" title=\"Paul Driessen: House Democrats Cancel Looming Embarrassment\">pipeline programs<\/a> offer a more equitable route\u2064 to diversity in professions like law,\u200b without compromising \u2062merit-based admission standards. The ruling\u200c in the Students for Fair Admissions case appeared to mark the conclusion of affirmative action.\u2063 Despite ongoing attempts to circumvent this\u2062 decision through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-residents-sue-city-over-racially-discriminatory-human-rights-policy\/\" title=\"White residents file lawsuit against city for racially biased human rights policy.\">race-conscious measures<\/a>, alternative methods \u2062such as pipeline programs present a fairer path to diversity in fields like\u200b law, upholding merit-based\u2062 admission criteria.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>When the Supreme Court announced its ruling last summer in <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/600\/20-1199\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. President and Fellows of Harvard College<\/em><\/a>  (the decision that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-slams-supreme-court-for-affirmative-action-decision-this-is-not-a-normal-court\/\" title=\"Biden criticizes Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling: 'Court is not normal'\">effectively ended affirmative action<\/a>), it seemed like the country was finally ready to move on from this unfair policy and recommit to excellence and merit. <\/p>\n<p>No longer would white and Asian applicants be passed over because they didn\u2019t meet an organization\u2019s arbitrary criteria for diversity, nor would unqualified applicants be admitted or employed and immediately fail afterward because they lacked the prerequisite skills and experience.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2102253226\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8112dc0fe8113477afd5ec1547eda695 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8112dc0fe8113477afd5ec1547eda695\"><\/div>\n<p>As a high school English teacher, I had special reason to celebrate the decision. For years I witnessed so many students of mine with near-perfect SAT scores, hundreds of volunteer hours, and limitless creative potential all being denied admission to supposedly elite universities because they happened to have the wrong skin color. Meanwhile, I saw their good-but-not-great peers make it into those same schools and even qualify for scholarships \u2014 again, because of their race. This was the very opposite of equal opportunity, and after so many decades of fuzzy reasoning and legal fumbling, the highest court of the land weighed in and condemned it.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, affirmative action wouldn\u2019t go away that easily. As a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/media4.manhattan-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/how-major-american-and-new-york-bar-associations-are-responding-to-students-for-fair-admissions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> from Renu Mukherjee at the Manhattan Institute shows, the American Bar Association (ABA) and New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) have flouted the SFFA by encouraging \u201claw schools and law firms to ignore the Court\u2019s holding\u201d and \u201ccontinue granting admissions preferences to black and Hispanic applicants using methods that are race-neutral in theory but race-conscious in practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To this end, the ABA and NYSBA proceeded to launch a series of online workshops that would help guide law schools in identifying minority applicants in order to \u201cfoster racial and ethnic diversity in the absence of affirmative action.\u201d According to Mukherjee, the main way to do this was \u201ctying [the applicant\u2019s race] to \u2018a non-racial goal or value being pursued by the university\u2019\u201d so that \u201cif the school faces a legal challenge, administers can argue that any preference granted to URMs [underrepresented minorities] is not based on race itself but instead on their \u2018lived experiences.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For those familiar with the application process, none of this is exactly subtle. There are a number of ways to determine a person\u2019s race without asking him directly, and it doesn\u2019t take a DEI expert to spell it out. For law schools and colleges, it\u2019s primarily a matter of ditching test scores and asking applicants to write <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonapp.org\/blog\/2023-2024-common-app-essay-prompts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">essays about their personal backgrounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ea6dbe478d94d5d03dd3f024771375b1 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ea6dbe478d94d5d03dd3f024771375b1\"><\/div>\n<p>Consequently, affirmative action and all the problems it creates continue to do damage to everyone involved. Not only will countless hardworking students and employees see their advancement stifled; not only will countless minority students inevitably fall short in roles they\u2019re not qualified to fill; and not only will the institutions mandating artificial racial diversity compromise their standards, but all of this will perpetuate ever more racial prejudice and prevent racial harmony. For every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-failed-aint-no-mo-its-clear-white-guilt-and-racist-pandering-dont-sell-seats-on-broadway\/\" title=\"With Failed \u2018Ain\u2019t No Mo,\u2019 It\u2019s Clear White Guilt And Racist Pandering Don\u2019t Sell Seats On Broadway\">successful black person<\/a> and unsuccessful white person, the assumption will always be same: His race had something to do with it. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, to the blockheaded DEI acolyte who views success as a zero-sum game, this is simply how diversity works.<\/p>\n<p>However, as Mukherjee explains toward the end of the report, there\u2019s a better way to ensure diversity without resorting to affirmative action, and it\u2019s one that the NYSBA actually endorses: pipeline programs. These are programs that \u201chelp students enter the legal profession by providing them with free academic tutoring, standardized test prep \u2026 mentorship, and career development opportunities.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Instead of lowering standards and bumping out better-qualified applicants, pipeline programs help raise students of any race and socioeconomic status to levels that are necessary to succeed. Thus, those who grow up poor or come from dysfunctional households could have access to those programs that are only enjoyed by more affluent (and usually whiter) Americans. Done right, such pipelines would lead to more diversity (ideological and economic as well as racial) across different institutions while moving Americans past the racist tit-for-tat that today\u2019s leftist leaders can\u2019t seem to let go of.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b29cc83e1127ed9645da18ad2f8f4d47 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b29cc83e1127ed9645da18ad2f8f4d47\"><\/div>\n<p>That said, establishing and maintaining successful pipeline programs would require ongoing funding and support, and more importantly, it would require Americans to be objective in their assessment and remediation of social pathologies afflicting nonwhite Americans. This means people would have to stop blaming invisible bogeymen like systemic racism and unconscious bias for a person\u2019s apparent inability to move ahead academically and professionally. Personal agency and accountability must be returned to the individual, and the pipeline programs Mukherjee recommends offer crucial assistance in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, continuing to use affirmative action to cover up the achievement gap only makes the problem worse. While irresponsible elites, DEI bureaucrats, and race hustlers may be fine with this status quo, Americans who want a more productive, harmonious, and yes, diverse society, must continue fighting to create a better alternative. Last year\u2019s victory at the Supreme Court was only the beginning of this effort.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-eb96cf7481c6985ddde093c247473b2e fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-eb96cf7481c6985ddde093c247473b2e\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling in the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. 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