In a highly anticipated decision, the US Supreme Court has ruled that the University of Texas at Austin’s use of race as a factor in its admissions process is constitutional. A Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP pro bono team filed an amicus brief last November in support of the university in the case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.
The brief, on behalf of a coalition of educators, educational institutions and grant programs including Teach for America, the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity and the Calhoun School, argued that eliminating race from the admissions process would diminish the quality of K-12 education for all students, promulgate stereotypes that certain minority groups are inferior and decrease diversity in the K-12 teaching force.
