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| What the Affirmative Action Ruling Means for Colleges and Universities | What the Affirmative Action Ruling Means for Colleges and Universities |
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| The Supreme Court’s decision to end race-conscious admissions will very likely change higher education in complicated ways. Some of them will be obvious, including immediate changes in the demographics of campus. | The Supreme Court’s decision to end race-conscious admissions will very likely change higher education in complicated ways. Some of them will be obvious, including immediate changes in the demographics of campus. |
| Others, though, could also change society, affecting the doctors who treat you, the judges who hear your cases, and the college choices of Black students. | Others, though, could also change society, affecting the doctors who treat you, the judges who hear your cases, and the college choices of Black students. |
| Here are a few things that could happen, now and in the future. | Here are a few things that could happen, now and in the future. |
| What will happen to the student body at the 100 or so selective colleges and universities that practice race-conscious admissions? | What will happen to the student body at the 100 or so selective colleges and universities that practice race-conscious admissions? |
| Nine states already ban this form of affirmative action at their public universities, providing a guide to what could happen. | Nine states already ban this form of affirmative action at their public universities, providing a guide to what could happen. |
| When Michigan banned race-conscious admissions in 2006, Black undergraduate enrollment at the state’s flagship campus in Ann Arbor declined to 4 percent in 2021, from 7 percent in 2006. | |
| A similar drop took place at the University of California’s most selective schools after Proposition 209 in 1996 banned race-conscious admissions. That year, Black students at the University of California, Los Angeles, made up 7 percent of the student body. By 1998, the percentage of Black students had fallen to 3.43 percent. |