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Affirmative action ruling impact on scholarships & nonprofit programs...? [1]
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Date: 2023-07-09
The recent Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action in college admissions will have a substantial and harmful chilling effect inside and outside higher education. The main loophole (“...nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise”) won’t be sufficient, and workarounds won’t be sufficient, to counter the upheaval this will cause. I don’t have a crystal ball to see how it will unfold, but I’m certain it’s going to be messy and ugly.
Republicans are already targeting scholarships, starting in Missouri. Per this Rolling Stone article :
IT TOOK REPUBLICANS no time at all to take the Supreme Court ’s affirmative action decision and use it to attack other educational initiatives intended to support people of color. On Thursday — the same day the Court declared race-conscious admissions policies unconstitutional — the state’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey, dispatched a letter to colleges and universities across the state: “Missouri institutions must identify all policies that give preference to individuals on the basis of race and immediately halt the implementation of such policies.” Hours later, the University of Missouri — which enrolls 70,000 students across four campuses — declared, in a statement acknowledging Bailey’s letter, it would end race-based financial aid programs.
Wisconsin is also on that path, per this piece by Ja'han Jones of MSNBC.
As someone in the nonprofit world, I also worry about the impact on:
Nonprofits that factor in race/ethnicity as part of addressing our society’s imbalances when they give free or discounted health & mental health services, or housing assistance, or scholarships for workshops and conferences, or career coaching, etc.
Non-profit-hosted affinity spaces that connect to race/ethnicity
The sheer existence of organizations such as the Black United Fund and the NAACP
Mutual aid groups in Native American, Black, and other communities
Black and Native sororities & fraternities
Nonprofit board recruitment, and staff recruitment especially at the management level
???
How much difference will it make if a nonprofit does or doesn’t receive government funding? Is simply being tax exempt going to necessitate that we not explicitly factor in race in what we do?
How might this also ripple through to other groups who face disparate impact, such as due to gender identity and sexual orientation – will nonprofits face lawsuits for specializing in housing or mental health assistance for LGBTQ+ people?
As much as possible we’ll need to continue on with our services in the hopes that the Supreme Court will be reformed and that the multitude of lawsuits that will be launched by white supremacists in the meantime won’t drain us.
Daily Kos community I’d really like to hear your thoughts on what we should be preparing for. What does your crystal ball show? Besides getting out the vote, what do we do?
I also want to acknowledge the pain we are all feeling from this and the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Hang in there everyone.
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