North Carolina Trustees Say Race Can’t Be Considered in Hiring or Admissions

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North Carolina Trustees Say Race Can’t Be Considered in Hiring or Admissions

Trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted Thursday to bar the consideration of race in admissions and hiring, a decision that came just weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that the university’s race-conscious application process was unconstitutional.

Notably, the resolution passed by the trustees said that the university must not adopt “proxies premised upon race-based preferences in hiring or admissions,” such as through admissions essays.

The vote is the latest sign that the court’s decision, which called out commonplace but fiercely debated affirmative action programs as unlawful, is reverberating through American higher education. As admissions offices scramble to comply with the ruling, applicants have faced an uncertain entry process, and colleges have also come under pressure to end legacy admissions programs that give preferential treatment to the children of alumni.

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