After Fisher: affirmative action and Asian-American students
- Written by Michele S. Moses, Professor of Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice, University of Colorado
After eight years, the Abigail Fisher case finally has been put to rest. In a landmark judgment on June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of race-conscious affirmative action in university admissions.
Abigail Fisher, a white woman, had sued the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) for its race-conscious admissions policy...
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