UNC will no longer consider race, including in essays, during admissionsBy Kendall Tietz, Fox News
August 8, 2023
The University of North Carolina (UNC) will no longer use race as a factor in its admissions and hiring decisions, including in the applications essays, following the monumental decision by the Supreme Court to overturn affirmative action in college admissions.
The UNC Board of Trustees approved the resolution that prohibits the university from using “race, sex, color or ethnicity” in admissions and hiring decisions last week.
The move amends a previous resolution that operated under affirmative action, which the Supreme Court struck down in its landmark ruling in June against Harvard and UNC’s race-conscious undergraduate admissions policy, which it said violated the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
UNC “shall not unlawfully discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status in its admissions, hiring and contracting,” according to the resolution.
In addition, UNC will not “‘establish through application essays or other means’ any regime of or encourage heuristics and/or proxies premised upon race-based preferences in hiring or admissions” and if the university “considers the personal experience of applicants for admission, each applicant ‘must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual – not on the basis of race.’”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/unc-will-no-longer-consider-race-including-in-essays-during-admissions/
