Harvard University on Thursday said it would comply with the US Supreme Court ruling that struck down its race-conscious student admissions programs, and that it would preserve its values on diversity and opportunity in higher education.
“We will certainly comply with the court’s decision,” the university said in a statement.
“In the weeks and months ahead, drawing on the talent and expertise of our Harvard community, we will determine how to preserve, consistent with the court’s new precedent, our essential values,” it said.
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The US Supreme Court ruling involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina was a sharp setback to affirmative action policies often used to increase the number of black, Hispanic and other under-represented minority groups on campuses.
The 386-year-old Ivy League school’s top administrators issued a letter to the Harvard community that was essentially a reprimand to the high court.
They reaffirmed Harvard’s commitment to diversity and the debate it fosters as essential to academic excellence.
Harvard values a student body that reflects different facets of the human experience, the letter said.
The institution believes that the university should be a place of opportunity, “a place whose doors remain open to those to whom they had long been closed,” it said.
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