The U.S. Supreme Court struck a severe blow to affirmative action on Thursday in the court’s latest conservative shift, upending decades of precedent allowing race-based college admissions.
Now comes the effort to resurrect the program’s stated goal: diversifying America’s top schools.
Harvard University promised to spend the coming months seeking ways to preserve those values in its admissions policy; the White House said it will seek ideas at a summit, produce a report and collect data illustrating various types of inequities in college admissions.
“We’re not going to let this break us,” President Joe Biden said from the White House, where he disparaged the right-leaning court.
“This is not a
