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Jon S. Iftikar; David H. K. Nguyen – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions "Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College" (2023) and "Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina et al." (2023), hereafter collectively referred to as "SFFA v. Harvard," have garnered attention, especially among…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Affirmative Action, College Admission, Civil Rights Legislation
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Ward, LaWanda W. M. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
Most education and legal scholarship overlook gendered-race themes in pre-Brown v. Board of Education desegregation higher education cases that remain relevant to examining post-"Brown" race-conscious admissions cases. The author engaged critical race feminism to create a counterstory with Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, a U.S. Supreme Court…
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, Feminism, Story Telling, Higher Education
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Walker, Laurie A.; Williams, Apryl; Triche, Jason; Rainey, Lola; Evans, Madison; Calabrese, Rebecca; Martin, Nicole – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2022
Affirmative Action is a contested concept in the United States (U.S.). "Fisher v. the University of Texas" (UT) is a key recent case focused on Fisher, a White woman, an alleged victim of discrimination. Fisher spurred online discussion about race as a factor in university admissions. The authors analyzed 13,158 tweets using #StayMadAbby…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Whites, Power Structure, Social Media
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Ward, LaWanda W. M. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
Ongoing sociolegal conflicts over affirmative action in race-conscious admissions in U.S. higher education have significant modern-day relevance. This article, informed mainly by Asian American women's scholarship, explores discourse in U.S. Supreme Court rulings and oral arguments and how litigation actors continue to recycle this discourse in…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Asian American Students