Tag: affirmative action

This article is informed by a conversation between the author and Dr. Peter Piazza, a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State’s Center for Education and Civil Rights. You can find more about Dr. Piazza’s work here. The members of the AJE Forum Student Board would like to extend their thanks to Dr. Piazza for his time,

The case of Fisher v. University of Texas, currently before the United States Supreme Court, potentially has far-reaching consequences for universities, as it could effectively eliminate affirmative action admissions policies. Abigail Fisher, a white woman denied undergraduate admission to the University of Texas in 2008, holds that the University’s admissions policy discriminates against her on