{"id":1234,"date":"2017-08-03T09:01:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2017-08-03T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:35:33","slug":"icymi-nacac-president-responds-to-trumps-reported-plan-to-challenge-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/08\/03\/icymi-nacac-president-responds-to-trumps-reported-plan-to-challenge-affirmative-action\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: NACAC President Responds to Trump Administration&#8217;s Reported Plan to Challenge Affirmative Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1236\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NANCYchucktry-e1501764417684.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1236 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NANCYchucktry-e1501764417684-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NANCYchucktry-e1501764417684-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NANCYchucktry-e1501764417684.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NACAC President Nancy Beane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NACAC President Nancy T. Beane responded Wednesday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-affirmative-action-universities.html?_r=0\">media reports <\/a>suggesting the Trump administration is considering legal action against colleges and universities with race-conscious admission policies.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released to the press, Beane noted that the Supreme Court upheld in 2016 \u00a0the right of colleges to consider a student&#8217;s race or ethnicity as one factor when making admission decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy disregarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/knowledge-center\/diversity-and-access\/\"><em>Fisher<\/em> <\/a>ruling, the administration and Justice Department would frustrate efforts to improve educational opportunity, and would erode respect for diversity in higher education,\u201d she said. \u201cThis initiative would be a serious challenge to the critical work of improving college access and success for all students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/news--publications\/newsroom\/nacac-opposes-trump-administrations-reported-plan-to-challenge-affirmative-action\/\">Read the full statement.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/07\/25\/campus-visit-tips-for-moms-and-dads\/mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em>mstegmeir@nacacnet.org.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NACAC President Nancy T. Beane responded Wednesday to media reports suggesting the Trump administration is considering legal action against colleges and universities with race-conscious admission policies. In a statement released to the press, Beane noted that the Supreme Court upheld in 2016 \u00a0the right of colleges to consider a student&#8217;s race or ethnicity as one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/08\/03\/icymi-nacac-president-responds-to-trumps-reported-plan-to-challenge-affirmative-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ICYMI: NACAC President Responds to Trump Administration&#8217;s Reported Plan to Challenge Affirmative Action<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[359,248,41],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-nacac-news","tag-affirmative-action","tag-nancy-beane","tag-race-conscious-admission-policies"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-jU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}