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Are race-conscious scholarships on their way out?

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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The review comes after Dave Yost, the state’s attorney general, advised administrators in a call that using race as a factor to award funds may be unconstitutional.

Key Points: 
  • The review comes after Dave Yost, the state’s attorney general, advised administrators in a call that using race as a factor to award funds may be unconstitutional.
  • The day after the Supreme Court’s decision, he had signaled that schools should clamp down on race-conscious programs.
  • He warned that “disguised” race-conscious admissions policies are still race-conscious admissions policies.

Targeting racial criteria

  • Officials at the universities of Kentucky and Missouri eliminated consideration of race in scholarships and grants.
  • This raises a question that goes beyond Ohio: Are scholarships that use race as part of their criteria a thing of the past?
  • To figure that out, administrators may have to go back to the source: the 2023 Supreme Court decision.

Diversity and the ‘strict scrutiny’ test

  • In 2003 and again in 2016, the court ruled that a diverse student body is a compelling interest.
  • But in 2023, Harvard and UNC weren’t able to pass the strict scrutiny test.
  • But this overlooks two important facts: The Supreme Court did not rule that diversity can never be a compelling state interest or that race can never be considered.
  • Even race-conscious admissions aren’t completely off the table – if programs can pass the strict scrutiny test.
  • But after the Harvard and UNC decision, even these programs will need to explore other ways to achieve diversity.
  • MIT and Stanford Law are among the programs already using criteria such as income, ZIP code and civic engagement to maintain diversity.

More challenges ahead

  • In contrast, some campus leaders and lawyers argue that the court’s decision should be limited to race-conscious admissions.
  • They argue it should not include other programs where race might be used as a factor.

Tips for prospective students and their parents

  • Students can also take the following steps: • Stay informed: Follow the news to find out whether changes in state laws or policies will affect scholarship opportunities.
  • • Talk to financial aid administrators: Connect with advisers in the school’s financial aid office to learn how they interpret the Harvard/UNC decision.


The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Kasowitz Files Lawsuit Against Columbia University and Barnard College Alleging Egregious Civil Rights Violations for Their Antisemitic Hostile Educational Environment

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
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In their complaint, plaintiffs allege that Columbia and Barnard's Jewish and Israeli students have been physically assaulted, spat at, threatened, and subjected to relentless intimidation and vilification.

Key Points: 
  • In their complaint, plaintiffs allege that Columbia and Barnard's Jewish and Israeli students have been physically assaulted, spat at, threatened, and subjected to relentless intimidation and vilification.
  • As the complaint alleges, faculty members and students routinely extol Hamas's October 7 atrocities as "awesome" and a "great feat."
  • Partner Marc E. Kasowitz said "Columbia continues to capitulate to pro-Hamas students and faculty, placing Columbia's Jewish and Israeli community at risk.
  • Our lawsuit seeks to protect Jewish students by exposing and expunging the antisemitic virus that permeates Columbia's campus and classrooms."

Kasowitz Files Amended Lawsuit Adding New Plaintiffs and Detailing New Allegations of NYU's Antisemitic Hostile Educational Environment and Egregious Civil Rights Violations

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Thursday, February 1, 2024
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NEW YORK, Feb. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kasowitz Benson Torres has filed an amended complaint against New York University (NYU) detailing new allegations concerning NYU's egregious violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Feb. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kasowitz Benson Torres has filed an amended complaint against New York University (NYU) detailing new allegations concerning NYU's egregious violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  • The amended complaint adds additional individual plaintiffs as well as an organizational plaintiff, Students Against Antisemitism, Inc., whose members include Jewish NYU students.
  • Partner Mark P. Ressler said: "With its continued deliberate indifference to the antisemitic mayhem on campus, NYU emboldens dangerous elements and fuels hate.
  • The time has come for federal court intervention to do what NYU won't do: protect its Jewish students."

Hagens Berman: Nation’s Prominent Plaintiff-Side Law Firms Unite Against the “Appalling Rise” of Antisemitism Across Law School and College Campuses

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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The leading plaintiff-side class action and civil rights firms banding together include Baron & Budd; Carella, Byrne, Cecchi, Brody & Agnello, P.C.

Key Points: 
  • The leading plaintiff-side class action and civil rights firms banding together include Baron & Budd; Carella, Byrne, Cecchi, Brody & Agnello, P.C.
  • They are sending their letter to all U.S. law schools, including dozens of schools which the firms routinely recruit and hire from.
  • We write to you on behalf of several of the largest and most successful plaintiff-side law firms in the world.
  • We ask you to ensure the safety of Jewish law students and to condemn without qualification this rising antisemitism.

Kasowitz Files Lawsuit against University of Pennsylvania on behalf of Jewish Students Alleging Egregious Civil Rights Violations for its Antisemitic Hostile Educational Environment

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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Plaintiffs and other Jewish students must traverse classrooms, dormitories, and buildings vandalized with antisemitic graffiti.

Key Points: 
  • Plaintiffs and other Jewish students must traverse classrooms, dormitories, and buildings vandalized with antisemitic graffiti.
  • Partner Marc E. Kasowitz said "Penn's transformation into an incubation lab for virulent antisemitism has created a pervasively hostile educational environment for Jewish students.
  • Partner Mark P. Ressler said "Jewish students at Penn have been subjected to egregious antisemitism and are living in fear, subjected to vile and threatening slurs, harassment, and discrimination.
  • Penn must be forced to protect its Jewish students and stop applying a double standard when it comes to anti-Jewish bigotry."

Kasowitz Files Lawsuit against New York University on behalf of Jewish Students Alleging Egregious Civil Rights Violations for its Antisemitic Hostile Educational Environment

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
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NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kasowitz Benson Torres, on behalf of three Jewish students, has filed a groundbreaking lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against New York University (NYU), alleging that NYU has egregiously violated the civil rights of the three Jewish students, who have faced pervasive acts of antisemitic hatred, discrimination, harassment, and intimidation while attending NYU.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kasowitz Benson Torres, on behalf of three Jewish students, has filed a groundbreaking lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against New York University (NYU), alleging that NYU has egregiously violated the civil rights of the three Jewish students, who have faced pervasive acts of antisemitic hatred, discrimination, harassment, and intimidation while attending NYU.
  • Partner Marc E. Kasowitz said, "NYU's deliberate indifference toward the plight of its Jewish students under siege by egregious antisemitism has been outrageous.
  • Partner Mark P. Ressler said, "Jewish students at NYU are traumatized and living in fear.
  • NYU must be forced to protect them, and held accountable for nurturing and fostering a hostile educational environment."

Students for Fair Admissions Applauds Supreme Court's Decision to End Racial Preferences in College Admissions

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Thursday, June 29, 2023
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ARLINGTON, Va., June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Edward Blum, the founder and president of Students for Fair Admissions made the following remarks:

Key Points: 
  • "Ending racial preferences in college admissions is an outcome that the vast majority of all races and ethnicities will celebrate.
  • A university doesn't have real diversity when it simply assembles students who look different but come from similar backgrounds and act, talk, and think alike.
  • "Beginning today, America's colleges and universities have a legal and moral obligation to strictly abide by the Supreme Court's opinion.
  • The elimination of these preferences is long overdue and SFFA hopes that these opinions will compel higher education institutions to end these practices.

80-20 Educational Foundation Calls for Fair Coverage of Asian Americans in Supreme Court Case

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023
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However, the media should not lose sight that at its core, SFFA v. Harvard is about ending discrimination against Asian Americans in college admission.

Key Points: 
  • However, the media should not lose sight that at its core, SFFA v. Harvard is about ending discrimination against Asian Americans in college admission.
  • SFFA's complaint also discusses Harvard's "long history of intentionally discriminating specifically against Asian Americans" going back to the 1970s.
  • Harvard itself implicitly acknowledges that it discriminated against Asian Americans, because since the lawsuit began, Harvard has dramatically increased its admission rate for Asian Americans.
  • Thus, ending Harvard's discrimination against Asian Americans is not a blow against diversity, as coverage based on the 'end of affirmative action' implies.

Introduction to Legal Issues for Academic Leaders Course - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Monday, October 17, 2022
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The "Introduction to Legal Issues for Academic Leaders" training has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Key Points: 
  • The "Introduction to Legal Issues for Academic Leaders" training has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • As the consequences of noncompliance heighten, academic leaders face increased pressure to know the ins and outs of key legal issues and leverage a variety of measures that mitigate the risk of costly and time-consuming litigation and legal disputes.
  • Introduction to Legal Issues for Academic Leaders is a three-part expert-delivered course.
  • Common Legal Issues in the Tenure Review and Revocation Process This module focuses on the common legal issues in the tenure review and revocation process.

Students for Fair Admissions Files Opening Brief at U.S. Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina

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Monday, May 2, 2022
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WASHINGTON, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a nonprofit organization with over 20,000 members, filed its opening brief in two cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a nonprofit organization with over 20,000 members, filed its opening brief in two cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina.
  • Harvard penalizes them because, according to its admissions office, they lack leadership and confidence and are less likable and kind.
  • Then it claims that racial preferences break down stereotypes because race is not a proxy for anyviews or experiences.
  • It is the hope of the vast majority of all Americans that the justices end these polarizing admissions policies."