Education NewsTaco November 19, 2014

Harvard and UNC sued over their admission policies

*A note from Dr. Henry Flores: “Need to consider this the first violent blow against civil rights after the mid-term elections. Mr. Blum leads the national effort to dismantle the Civil Rights Acts beginning with the VRA and Affirmative Action.” VL

By Philip Marcelo, Associated Press

BOSTON (AP) — Lawsuits filed Monday against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill argue that affirmative action policies should be banned at colleges across the nation.

 The federal suits allege Harvard and UNC rely on race-based affirmative action policies that impact admissions of high-achieving white and Asian American students. The Harvard lawsuit also contends that the Ivy League university specifically limits the number of Asian Americans it admits each year.

The Project on Fair Representation, an Alexandria, Virginia-based legal defense fund, said Monday’s filings will be the first in a series of legal challenges against colleges across the country in an effort to ban race-based admission policies outright.

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