The Supreme Court’s decision to reconsider a challenge to affirmative action at the University of Texas at Austin has universities around the country fearing that they will be forced to abandon what remains of race-based admission preferences and resort to more difficult and expensive methods if they want to achieve student diversity. “A broad general statement by the Supreme Court that it’s unconstitutional to consider race at all will have domino effects across the whole country, and will sweep across private universities as well as public ones,” said Tom Sullivan, the president of the University of Vermont. He predicted that colleges would have to turn their attention to sustained, intensive recruitment to maintain diverse student bodies.

June 30, 2015 ・ From The New York Times