The rest of the Ivy League closed ranks behind Harvard on Monday, defending the practice of including the race of applicants in the admissions process in the face of a lawsuit aimed at striking down Harvard’s system. In a joint brief, the seven other members of the Ivy League and nine private universities ranging from M.I.T. to Emory to Stanford said that a ruling against Harvard’s admissions process would reverberate across academia and hurt efforts to open higher education to a diverse array of students. Data that has been released as part of the lawsuit suggests that Asian-American students were held to a higher standard than students of other ethnicities. Harvard denies any discrimination in its admissions process.

Source: New York Times July 30, 2018 23:47 UTC