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US Supreme Court poised to ban affirmative action in university admissions

Two hotly debated lawsuits argue that race-conscious admissions discriminate against white and Asian American applicants.
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The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next week in two cases that could change the landscape of higher education in the country. The eventual outcomes will determine whether Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill are allowed to use race as a factor in deciding which students they admit. But beyond that, the court’s decisions could mean that academic institutions across the United States will no longer be allowed to use ‘affirmative action’ policies to shape their student bodies.

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Nature 611, 215 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03470-5

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