Senator Merkley (D-OR) and Rep Bowman (D-NY) plan to reintroduce the Fair College Admissions for Students Act which would ban legacy admissions https://www.merkley.senate.gov/news/press-releases/merkley-bowman-introduce-bill-to-end-legacy-admission-preferences-at-colleges-and-universities-22 ...
In oral arguments last October, several conservative justices had floated removing legacy preferences as a race-neutral alternative for Harvard’s admissions process. President Joe Biden also took aim at legacy admissions in a press conference following the decision, announcing that he ...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/affirmative-action-white-people-legacy-college-admissions-renewed-100567037 In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that removes race from the admissions process, colleges are coming under renewed pressure to put an end to legacy preferences, the practice of ...
Supreme Court Decision Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Today, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College . The Court held that Harvard College’s admissions system does not comply with the principle ...
“So often, we just accept that money, power and privilege are perfectly justifiable forms of affirmative action, while kids growing up like I did are expected to compete when the ground is anything but level.”