TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 5, 2023

Three civil rights groups filed a complaint against Harvard on Monday, claiming its preferential policy for undergraduate applicants with family ties to the school overwhelmingly benefits white students, and therefore violates a federal law banning race discrimination. The complaint, which asks the Department of Education to investigate the matter, comes just days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions policies at the university. The groups said the high court’s decision made it even more imperative to eliminate policies that disadvantage non-white applicants, Reuters reports. In related news, UT Law Professor Ben Barton recently talked about how the Supreme Court’s decision will affect colleges in an interview with WVEC-TV Channel 13 News Now.