Few selective colleges have changed their admissions practices since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin two years ago, according to a report released on Tuesday by the American Council on Education. Yet many institutions, it found, have since embraced various strategies for increasing racial and socioeconomic diversity in their student body. The report, which is based on a survey of colleges, urges policy makers, researchers, and journalists to consider such nuances as higher education braces for another ruling in the closely watched affirmative-action case. In June the high court announced that it would revisit the lawsuit, which challenges the university’s consideration of race and ethnicity in its evaluations of undergraduate applicants. As the Supreme Court takes up the case for a second time, college officials once again are weighing how best to achieve diversity.

July 21, 2015 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education