The Supreme Court said no to racial preferences, but accreditation agencies have ideas of their own.
The Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard prohibited racial preferences in higher education, but whether some schools are defying the ban remains an open question.
Students for Fair Admissions, the nonprofit that successfully litigated the case, has already threatened legal action against Princeton, Yale and Duke, which are among the elite schools it suspects are flouting the court’s ruling. Earlier this month, a lawsuit was brought against the University of California system, where the use of race in college admissions at public universities was banned by ballot initiative in 1996. The suit, filed by the anti-affirmative-action organization Students Against Racial Discrimination, accuses the UC system of surreptitiously restoring race-conscious admissions practices that favor black and Hispanic applicants over their white and Asian peers.
For its part the Trump administration wants to make clear that racial discrimination will no longer be tolerated on college campuses. Linda McMahon, Mr. Trump’s pick for education secretary, told senators at her confirmation hearing that ending racial double standards would be a priority.
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Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and a Fox News commentator. Follow him on Twitter here.
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