Affirmative Action
This list includes all of our individual, foundation, corporate, and other community support. Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC gratefully acknowledges the numerous donations made in anonymity.
This list includes all of our individual, foundation, corporate, and other community support.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC gratefully acknowledges the numerous donations made in anonymity.
Asian American Civil Rights Orgs: We Need Affirmative Action to Counter Systemic Racism in Education
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ahead of oral arguments before the Supreme Court in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v.
Civil Rights Leaders Detail Stakes for Diversity in Higher Education
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Leadership Conference Education Fund, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) held a press briefing today to discuss the threats to the longstanding precedent of affirmative action in higher education.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC submits Letter to the Editor to the New York Times in response to the opinion piece by John McWhorter about affirmative action.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, LatinoJustice, and BR File Amicus Brief Defending Equitable Admissions Plan for Boston’s Selective High Schools
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Boston, MA – Brown Rudnick LLP, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC filed an amicus brief in the First Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday in support of Boston’s School Committee as it defends an admissions plan to expand access to the city’s top-ranked “exam schools.”
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, LatinoJustice, and BR File Amicus Brief Defending Equitable Admissions Plan for Boston’s Selective High Schools
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Brown Rudnick LLP filed an amicus brief joined by 14 prominent national and local organizations in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Boston’s School Committee as it defends an admissions plan to expand access to the city’s top-ranked “exam schools.”
Historic Number of Corporations File Amicus Briefs in U.S. Supreme Court in Support of College Admissions Policies That Foster Diversity
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In a show of historic and overwhelming support for affirmative action, 82 corporations and business groups (see list below) signed three amicus briefs filed in the Supreme Court of the United States in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard and SFFA v. University of North Carolina asking the Court to uphold over 40 years of precedent allowing colleges and universities to consider race as one of many factors in admissions.
Civil Rights Lawyers File Supreme Court Brief Supporting Affirmative Action on Behalf Of Harvard Students and Alumni
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WASHINGTON–Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC on behalf of the Asian Americans Advancing Justice affiliation, Arnold & Porter, and Lawyers for Civil Rights, filed an amicus brief