WATCH LIVE: House edu­ca­tion sub­com­mit­tee hear­ing on Supreme Court affir­ma­tive action deci­sion

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The Sub­com­mit­tee on High­er Edu­ca­tion and Work­force Devel­op­ment is hold­ing a hear­ing at 10:15 a.m. East­ern time exam­in­ing how the Supreme Court’s deci­sion to strike down affir­ma­tive action is affect­ing uni­ver­si­ty admis­sions.
The hear­ing, titled “How SCO­TUS’s Deci­sion on Race-Based Admis­sions is Shap­ing Uni­ver­si­ty Poli­cies,” will be held by the Sub­com­mit­tee on High­er Edu­ca­tion and Work­force Devel­op­ment, which is chaired by Rep. Burgess Owens (R‑UT).
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Wit­ness­es include Ali­son Somin, a legal fel­low with the Pacif­ic Legal Foun­da­tion; Yukong Mike Zhao, pres­i­dent of the Asian Amer­i­can Coali­tion for Edu­ca­tion; David Hino­josa, direc­tor of the Edu­ca­tion­al Oppor­tu­ni­ties Project for the Lawyers’ Com­mit­tee for Civ­il Rights Under Law; and Delano Squires, a research fel­low with the Richard and Helen DeVos Cen­ter for Life, Reli­gion, and Fam­i­ly.
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“The Supreme Court deliv­ered a resound­ing defeat for racism when it deemed race-based col­lege admis­sions uncon­sti­tu­tion­al,” Owens said in a state­ment. “End­ing the era of affir­ma­tive action in high­er edu­ca­tion is of the utmost impor­tance as we work to build a sys­tem that rewards per­se­ver­ance, mer­it, and hard work rather than skin col­or. I am look­ing for­ward to gavel­ing in our sub­com­mit­tee to exam­ine how this land­mark rul­ing will pos­i­tive­ly shape uni­ver­si­ty poli­cies now and in the future.”
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