Monday, February 12, 2024, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EST

John Latting

Associate Vice Provost, Dean of Admission

“College Admissions in a Post-Affirmative Action World”

In June 2023 the Supreme Court ruled in two related cases that the way race and ethnicity is used in college admissions (at Harvard and UNC Chapel Hill) violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and was thus no longer permissible. With these two rulings the Court did away with “affirmative action” in higher education admissions. At Emory the decisions have significant implications for how the Office of Admission selects each class. In this presentation, the Dean of Admission at Emory, John Latting, will comment on the likely impact of the decisions on American higher education, and also share how Emory has decided to change its admissions process, how it is prioritizing goals, and how it hopes to continue to enroll undergraduate classes distinguished by their quality and diversity.