“Campus leaders will now have to work even harder to ensure that North Carolinians of all backgrounds are represented in higher education,” Cooper said, “and to ensure strong, diverse student bodies at our colleges and universities to train the next generation of leaders for North Carolina and the nation.” “This decision yesterday has come with great disappointment and concern for me as I am sure it has for many across our community,” McGee said. “I want everyone in our Salem family to know that we stand with you in support,...

ANALYSIS: College essays under spotlight as possible means to continue to use race in admissions decisions Harvard University said it plans to continue to use race as a factor in admissions in the wake of the 6-3 Supreme Court decision last week that ruled affirmative action enrollment decisions are unconstitutional. A June 29 memo to the Harvard community from President Lawrence Bacow and more than a dozen deans and provosts cited a line in the ruling that states colleges and universities may consider in admissions decisions “an applicant’s discussion of...

In Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., decided on June 29, the Supreme Court, combining two cases, found the race-based admission practices of both Harvard and the University of North Carolina to be unconstitutional violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. These are not cases of racial quotas, setasides, or proportional enrollments. Instead, at both universities, race has been an open and institutionalized factor in all contemporaneous admissions decisions regarding every applicant.

“Affirmative action affirms and sees our story as a framework for passions, ambitions, and achievements,” Michelle Jean-Louis, a rising sophomore from New Jersey, said in front of the center. “The decision might have been made, but the fight for visibility must remain.” On Saturday, Harvard University students and alumni, along with community members, gathered around the statue of founder John Harvard before processing through campus, with a stop in front of the science center. CAMBRIDGE — Two days after the US Supreme Court ruled race can no longer be considered...

Former President Donald Trump Saturday hailed this week's Supreme Court rulings, telling a rally carried live on Newsmax that the moves came after his administration's appointment of "three great Supreme Court justices" and almost 300 federal judges. "This week, those justices ruled to move our country forward," Trump told rally-goers in Pickens, South Carolina, pointing out how the judges ruled against affirmative action in the nation's colleges and President Joe Biden's loan forgiveness plan, and in favor of a web designer's refusal to design an internet page for a same-sex...

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) shared his thoughts on the recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action in an interview with Salena Zito. DeSantis predicted this decision "may open the door" for corporations to follow suit, and make hiring efforts based on merit over race. In fact, General Electric, JetBlue Airways, and Google filed a brief with the Supreme Court in the Students for Fair Admissions case, which read that undoing affirmative action could mean losing "a pipeline of highly qualified future workers and business leaders" and future struggles meeting diversity...

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart agreed on Friday’s PBS NewsHour that the Supreme Court’s ruling that the First Amendment protects a Christian web designer from having to create a website for same-sex weddings is “poison” for society. Host Geoff Bennett started with Brooks, who is supposed to be the conservative of the Brooks and Capehart duo, “David, there are those on the right, there are religious conservatives who are hailing this as a victory for religious liberty and there are others who...

Former President Donald Trump is holding a Save America rally in Pickens, South Carolina, on Saturday at 12:00 PM CST to break down the corrupt DOJ’s indictment against him and the recent string of Supreme Court rulings for fairness that have infuriated the left.

Trump also invited the Rushingbrook Youth Choir to perform after they were shut down at the Capitol building last month for singing the “offensive” National Anthem:

We just celebrated Juneteenth last month. It became a federal holiday in 2021 following decades of activism. The call for legislation began in 1968 and ended after a powerful protest walk by “Grandmother of Juneteenth” Opal Lee from Dallas, Texas to Washington D.C. Despite this landmark decision, pandemic and workplace changes along with anti-woke backlash has spurred new challenges for leaders seeking to build more inclusive organizations—including equity for racial and ethnic groups, women, immigrants or the inclusion of neuro-diverse, gender minority or any other out-group.

ANDERSON — This week’s Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in college admissions is likely to challenge academic institutions to explore alternative avenues for diversifying their student bodies. Anderson University’s president said that while race is one criterion that is not used in the university’s admissions process, attorneys will review the high court decision with an eye toward its potential impact on scholarships for students of color. “We have several scholarships that are set up specifically for people of color — for Blacks and for others — who would...