4 Emphasis Added Fisher v . University of Texas and Its Practical Implications for Institutions of Higher Education
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T year 2013 was a year of galvanizing focus on higher education diversity, with all eyes again on the U.S. Supreme Court, this time with the highly anticipated decision in Fisher v. University of Texas.1 For those who anticipated that the Court would materially reverse course from its landmark decisions in 2003 (and its unanimous affirmation of a core principle underpinning those decisions in 2007), the Court’s decision failed to meet the mark. While not the blockbuster typical of past Court pronouncements in higher education admissions (Bakke, 1978; Grutter/Gratz, 2003), Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion on behalf of seven members of the Court2 was indisputably consequential. While
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