American Conservatives and the End of Affirmative Action in College Admission
Affirmative action in American college admissions has been a pivotal policy for advancing educational equity by favoring underrepresented minority students.However,as a sensitive racial issue embedded in the"zero-sum game"of allocating higher education opportunities,affirmative action has faced continuous controversy since the 1970s and has seen a steady decline over the past 30 years.Marked by the"Reagan era,"conservatism started to dominate American politics.In the 1990s,con-servatives began to impose judicial,legislative,and political restrictions on affirmative action.This not only directly prohibited some public universities from implementing affirmative action policies but also indirectly altered the policy and legal landscapes of higher education,prompting many universities to voluntarily terminate relevant policies.In June 2023,the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that the race-con-scious admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina were unconstitu-tional,which ended Affirmative Action in college admissions.This decision marks a challenging future for achieving educational equity in the"post-affirmative action era"and introduces greater uncertainty into the admissions policies of American universities and colleges.
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