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Affirmative Action
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Simple Justice
The Legacy Of Government Control of Private Universities
Whether university legacy admissions are as big a deal as some make of it is beside the point. At best, it’s a tie-breaker for equally admissible students. Contrary to the…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Colinvaux on Fearless Fund’s Settlement and The Future of DEI Nonprofits
From DEI for Nonprofits in a Post-Affirmative Action ClimateColinvaux is on a panel today entitled "The Future of Race-Based Grant Making." The on-line forum, sponsored by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, is…
The Right Coast
Racial Preferences on the Sly? – WSJ
The Supreme Court ended racial preferences in college admissions in a pair of landmark cases in 2023, but one fear is that schools will find ways to duck the ruling…
Simple Justice
Surviving The End of University Racial Preferences
This campus admissions season was the first under the new rule of SSFA v. Harvard, banning the use of racial preferences in admissions. Predictions of disaster permeated the campus debates.…
The Right Coast
Yale and Princeton to Supreme Court: Go to hell.
Yale and Princeton have published the racial breakdown of their entering classes. They show that both institutions have violated the ban on racial discrimination in college admissions that the Supreme…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Disconnect Between Sex and Pregnancy-Based Affirmative Action
By Tracy Thomas
Ruth Colker, The Hypocrisy of Sex or Pregnancy-Based Affirmative Action, 25 Georgetown J. Gender & Law 1139 (2024) The Supreme Court’s sex-based jurisprudence has always been a mess; the Court, for…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
OFCCP Encourages Contractors to Use Apprenticeship Programs to Hire Veterans
By By Laura R. Garger, Zachary V. Zagger
Quick Hits OFCCP updated its guidance on protected veterans hiring obligations and affirmative action policies encouraging contractors to provide apprenticeship opportunities to protected veterans. OFCCP said protected veterans must be…
Gov Con Employment Exchange
OFCCP Releases Expedited Conciliation Procedures Directive
Ahead of the start of the 2024 National ILG Conference, OFCCP announced today publication of Directive 2024-01: Expedited Conciliation Procedures. In its announcement OFCCP described the directive as outlining updated…
Government Contractor Compliance & Regulatory Update
Reminder: Deadline for Contractors to Certify AAP Compliance is July 1, 2024
By Guy Brenner, Olympia Karageorgiou
As we previously reported, federal contractors and subcontractors (“Contractors”) have until July 1, 2024 to certify the status of their Affirmative Action Programs (“AAPs”) with the OFCCP Contractor Portal. Specifically, covered Contractors…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Some Thoughts on Fearless Fund
Well. I am finally reading Students For Fair Admission v. Harvard and UNC. I had to because I wanted to comment on the Eleventh Circuit’s decision in Fearless Fund. In…