affirmative action and college admissions calling the policy on constitutional decision came after a case was brought in front of harvard in the case of north carolina. our reporter has the details. a landmark decision from a bitterly divided supreme court, rejecting the use of race as we know it in college admissions, chief johnson to conclude programs at harvard and the university of north carolina violated the law, riding the schools unavoidably a cloyed race in a negative manner involved racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful and points. the polarizing stigmatizing and on fair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a students race and ethnicity as a factor to either admit them or reject them has been overruled. praise there from the architect of the lawsuits, the schools were accused of giving substantial preferences to black and hispanic applicants while discriminating against asian students. what this lawsuit reveals is that personality
hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again i m stephanie ruhle, let s take a big deep breath because we have a lot to cover tonight, today the nation s highest court struck down race based affirmative action and college admissions calling the policy on constitutional decision came after a case was brought in front of harvard in the case of north carolina. our reporter has the details. a landmark decision from a bitterly divided supreme court, rejecting the use of race as we know it in college admissions, chief johnson to conclude programs at harvard and the university of north carolina violated the law, riding the schools unavoidably a cloyed race in a negative manner involved racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful and points. the polarizing stigmatizing and on fair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a students race and ethnicity as a factor to either admit them or reject them has been overruled. praise there from th
admissions and other things that give unfair advantages to communities of privilege. it s important because maybe one person is more qualified but that s only because they ve been given resources and opportunities. i think it s important to keep that in mind. i hope this is an opportunity for harvard to step up in other efforts, recruitment, but i think it would also be wrong of me to say that i m not scared. students across the country have been reacting to the supreme court s decision to gut affirmative action in higher education. back with us tonight my friend and colleague nbc correspondent antonia hylton she, has been speaking with students all day. antonia, it s summer but there are still kids on campus, you are at harvard, your alma mater, what have you been hearing? that s right, there are still students there, there are lots of high school students who are in camps and programs this summer who were planning to apply to harvard this fall, i got a chance to talk to a lot
to what extent do they listen to students. to what extent are they with doing away with traditions that harbor town in place for a long time. harvard is older than this country. so it often takes a long time at that institution for there to be major changes, so what level of action do they take. they released a statement saying they are committed to diversity as a key part of their essential values, well how quickly do they act on that? what kind of tool do that use? the next question is will there be more lawsuits to come? if you find other ways to essentially do affirmative action without affirmative action, you might get sued. and relitigating those same points over and over again. schools are trying to anticipate that as well. making sure that that s not the situation they end up right now, stephanie. harvard might be older than this country but every day is an opportunity to create a new tradition that represents a new country that we live in. a more diverse, hopefully, more wel
supreme court s decision to gut affirmative action in higher education. back with us tonight my friend and colleague nbc correspondent antonia hylton she, has been speaking with students all day. antonia, it s summer but there are still kids on campus, you are at harvard, your alma mater, what have you been hearing? that s right, there are still students there, there are lots of high school students who are in camps and programs this summer who were planning to apply to harvard this fall, i got a chance to talk to a lot of them. the vast majority of them, stephanie, are reeling right now. this is even with the knowledge for years that this was coming. this lawsuit started back in around 2014, students have been preparing for this moment, they knew that this court was very likely going to go the way that it has gone. but it has felt like a gut punch, some of the language i heard today, people were still trying to figure out how was our school going to pick up the pieces? what can we d