Biden Admin To Colleges: Continue Pursuing Diversity

Reuters reports:

The Biden administration on Monday issued new guidance to colleges and universities on how they could still legally encourage racial diversity on their campuses even after the U.S. Supreme Court ended affirmative action in college admissions.

The guidance, from the Education and Justice departments, came after the conservative-majority Supreme Court in June ruled that colleges cannot legally consider race as a factor on its own when deciding whom to admit to their schools.

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said promoting campus diversity remained important even after the ruling. “We know what has happened at colleges, when individual states have banned affirmative action in the past,” he told reporters. “Fewer students of color applied, and fewer students of color were admitted. We cannot afford that kind of backpedaling on a national scale.”

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