In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the use of race in admissions policies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the UNC-Chapel Hill admissions lawsuit at the U.S. Supreme Court. Kokai offered these comments during the Nov. 4, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
Supporters and critics will have to wait — likely until next June — to learn the fate of race-based admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The U.S. Supreme Court heard more than 2 1/2 hours of arguments Monday for and against UNC’s admissions policies.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming oral arguments in cases targeting race-based admissions policies at Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. Kokai offered these comments during an Oct. 28, 2022, appearance on One America News Network.
The U.S. solicitor general will take part in oral arguments next month in a U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with admissions policies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The nation’s highest court announced Friday that oral arguments on Oct. 31 will last 90 minutes. That’s 30 minutes longer than the time allotment originally announced.
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The litigation over race-based admissions policies is probably the most important case the Supreme Court will decide in its current term. Those who think that it's somehow progress for government institutions to treat classes of individuals differently because of their ancestry are pulling out all the stops to defend race-based admissions policies, including an intellectually dishonest argument that diversity enhances education and cries that the sky will fall if schools like the University of Michigan can't stack the deck in favor of applicants in certain groups. Here are a few thoughts on this momentous case.
The controversy over minority enrollment in North Carolina colleges gets right to the heart of diversity, the cardinal virtue of academe. Although the issue has been vexing colleges for years, it doesn't take an outside observer long to realize the absurdly simple crux of the matter. The problem with minorities is just that there are just so few of them.
When it comes to college admissions, some superior students face rejection from less competitive schools. But higher education leaders in North Carolina question whether or not the practice is widespread.
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors recently adopted unanimously a resolution supporting the changes in the university admissions policy by President John T. Casteen III. Casteen this month acknowledged that in June he had ended the university’s use of a scoring system in admissions that awarded extra points to black applicants.
