Why Diversity Still Matters: Supreme Court Revisit of College Admission Rules Threatens a Civil Rights Setback

Washington, D.C–(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2012.  This week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, Fisher v. The University of Texas, challenging the future of race-conscious admissions at our country’s colleges and universities. If the Court bars the use of race in admissions decisions, years of hard work by civil rights activists in the higher education field who fought to make college campuses more integrated, diverse, and just will be threatened.