Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 19: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the Workplace with Stephanie Mays, Maynard Nexsen Chief Talent Officer
DE Under 3: How to Lawfully Engage in Race-Based Employment Decisions
Business Better Podcast Episode: Is DEI at Risk? Considerations on the US Supreme Court Ruling Against Affirmative Action Programs
DE Under 3: 4 Implications Impacting Federal Contractors & Employers Following the SCOTUS Decision in the Harvard & UNC Cases
DE Under 3: SCOTUS Finds “Race-Based” Admissions Practices At Harvard and UNC Unlawful
DE Under 3: The Harvard and UNC Case Decisions Are Coming
DE Under 3: The Coming Harvard & UNC Case Decisions and NLRB’s Memo on Electronic Surveillance and Organizing
This is the fifth in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more
How can colleges and universities respond to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Students for Fair Admissions decision? Alston & Bird and Huron Consulting offer strategies institutions can use to retain their diversity, equity, and...more
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, many postsecondary institutions have engaged in a review of their recruiting, admissions, and other policies and procedures. To guide...more
Seeing the barrage of lawsuits following the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision regarding the use of race in admissions in higher education has left many in K-12 independent and private schools scratching their...more
On August 10, 2023, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, called for the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate top universities for allegedly coordinating their admissions policies following the U.S....more
Colleges and universities can still take steps to foster diverse and inclusive campuses — even after the Supreme Court’s decision severely limiting race-conscious admissions in education, according to the latest guidance from...more
On August 14, 2023, the Biden Administration's Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") and the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education ("DOE") jointly issued two pieces of guidance...more
On August 14, 2023, the Biden Administration released its first guidance on how institutions of higher education may lawfully pursue efforts to recruit and admit diverse student bodies in light of the Supreme Court’s recent...more
On August 14, 2023, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (together, the Departments) jointly released two resources to help higher education...more
As higher education institutions, state and local governments, private employers and federal contractors grapple with understanding the impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President...more
The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action will spur more challenges to educational institutions’ policies beyond admissions. Our Education Team discusses race conscious admissions prior to the Court’s...more
Monday, July 3, 2023: Four Implications Impacting Federal Government Contractors and Employers Following the SCOTUS Decision in the Harvard & UNC Cases + “Life Preserver” Practical Next Step Suggestions - This is Part I of...more
DCI Consulting Group (DCI) is monitoring reactions, answering questions, and releasing content related to the June 2023 Supreme Court ruling on with affirmative action in higher education. The Court's majority opinion was...more
As has been widely reported in the national media, on June 29, 2023, the United States Supreme Court, in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA), invalidated the affirmative action...more
This is Part I of a Four-Part Series (the next three parts will appear one-per-week in the next three Week In Review publications) Part A, below, describes the continuing and growing “Pipeline” problem. Part B, below,...more
College and university admissions will now be more subjective, complex, and — as a result — expensive for many schools. Those are a few takeaways from the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on June 29 effectively ending affirmative...more
On June 29, 2023, in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the Supreme Court drastically altered college admissions by ruling that affirmative action admissions practices violated the Equal Protection Clause of the...more
On June 29, 2023, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling sharply restricting the use of race in college admissions. The Court’s decision immediately reshaped the landscape of student affirmative action...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the cases Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina upended prior...more
In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard Coll., No. 20-1199, 600 U.S. – (U.S. June 29, 2023) (available here) that affirmative action programs at...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In two companion cases involving Harvard and UNC, the Supreme Court held that colleges and universities may no longer consider race as part of the college admissions process. The schools argued that their...more
On June 29, 2023, the United States Supreme Court issued a historic decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North...more
On June 29, 2023, the US Supreme Court held in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (decided with Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, et al.) that race...more
Supreme Court Blocks Use of Race in Harvard, UNC Admissions in Blow to Diversity Efforts - "In one of its most closely watched cases this year, the court ruled along ideological lines that the way the schools approached race...more
Majority Said Grutter Promised to End Race-Based Admission Practices This Decade - Majority Found Harvard & UNC Also Failed The Prior Grutter Test Which Made Race-Based Admission Practices in Higher Education Temporarily...more