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After Supreme Court’s Fisher decision: what we need to know about considering race in admissions

  • Written by Liliana M Garces, Associate Professor of Education, Pennsylvania State University

On Thursday, June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a race-conscious post-secondary admissions policy at the University of Texas at Austin.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, considered to be the swing vote, joined Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, in a 4-3 decision that affirmed the constitutionality...

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