{"id":11308,"date":"2023-06-29T15:39:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T15:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11308"},"modified":"2023-06-30T14:27:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:27:37","slug":"augsburg-university-statement-on-supreme-court-decision-to-strike-down-race-conscious-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/29\/augsburg-university-statement-on-supreme-court-decision-to-strike-down-race-conscious-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg University Statement on Supreme Court Decision to Strike Down Race-Conscious Admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/06\/17-0901_081-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11311 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/06\/17-0901_081-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Three students walk under leafy trees on the Augsburg campus towards a maroon banner that reads &quot;Augsburg University&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/06\/17-0901_081-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/06\/17-0901_081-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/06\/17-0901_081-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/06\/17-0901_081-1.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Augsburg community is committed to intentional diversity in our life and work. This commitment aligns with our use of holistic application review and our direct admissions approach, launched in fall 2022. Because direct admissions does not consider race as a factor, Augsburg\u2019s current admissions processes are unlikely to be affected by the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SFFA v. Harvard\/UNC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ruling\u2014despite potentially far-reaching impacts for higher education. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Augsburg\u2019s experience with direct admissions may serve as a useful case study on alternative strategies to lower barriers for historically underrepresented and marginalized student populations following this decision<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Media contact: Rachel Farris, <a href=\"&#109;&#x61;i&#x6c;t&#111;&#x3a;&#102;&#x61;r&#114;&#x69;&#115;&#x72;&#64;&#x61;&#x75;&#103;&#x73;b&#x75;r&#103;&#x2e;&#101;&#x64;u\">&#x66;a&#x72;&#114;i&#x73;&#114;&#x40;&#x61;u&#x67;&#115;b&#x75;&#114;&#x67;&#46;e&#x64;&#117;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Augsburg community is committed to intentional diversity in our life and work. This commitment aligns with our use of holistic application review and our direct admissions approach, launched in fall 2022. Because direct admissions does not consider race as a factor, Augsburg\u2019s current admissions processes are unlikely to be affected by the SFFA v. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":11311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3231],"tags":[85,3998,4015],"class_list":["post-11308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-admissions","tag-direct-admissions","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11308"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11316,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions\/11316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}