Celebrate Constitution Day with Politics Forum! On Friday, September 22 at 12:30 pm in ED 113, TCNJ Politics Forum is hosting this year’s Constitution Day event, “Equal Protection & Education Access Following the End of Affirmative Action,” presented by Dr. Tao Dumas, TCNJ Department of Political Science.
The 14th Amendment of the Constitution states that the government cannot deny any person “equal protection of the laws.” For 45 years the Supreme Court interpreted the Equal Protection Clause as allowing institutions of higher education to consider race in the admissions process to ensure diversity and to remedy past discrimination.
In part one of a two part series, Professor Tao Dumas will explore how the Court’s recent ruling changed the law, with a second discussion examining the impact and implementation of the ruling to follow this fall.