Daily Lumina News 070523

Millions of student loan borrowers have been waiting to find out whether the Biden Administration’s plan to forgive some federal student debt will provide them with financial relief. Last week, they got an answer.
On the final day of this year’s session, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the plan unconstitutional, throwing a key Biden campaign promise into doubt and denying debt forgiveness for 26 million people who had applied. The vote was 6-3, with the liberal justices dissenting.

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a fatal blow last week to President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel student debt for tens of millions of Americans. But Biden student debt relief isn’t dead yet.
Just hours after the court’s conservative majority rejected his loan forgiveness program as a drastic overreach of executive authority, Biden moved swiftly to resuscitate his efforts to cancel debt by invoking a different legal authority.

The teenagers seeking shade as their tour groups crisscrossed leafy Harvard Yard last week knew that they would be among the first students to feel the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on race-based admissions when they applied to colleges.
What they didn’t know was exactly how it would affect their chances. But many high school students, visiting Harvard University and beyond, say they are concerned to see long-established admissions practices giving way to something new and unfamiliar.

The U.S. Supreme Court looked behind the curtain. Then it knocked over the table and chairs.
Last week's decision limiting the use of race in college admissions leaves colleges with new challenges and many questions. How will they respond?

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that selective colleges and universities can’t use race as a factor in admissions comes as the nation's students have become increasingly diverse. Over half are Latino, Black, Asian American, or Native American.
At the same time, Black and Latino students are still underrepresented across selective and highly selective colleges and universities. Education experts assess what the Supreme Court ruling means for these students and families in this interview.

The end of affirmative action is expected to heavily impact private universities with extremely selective admissions.
Leaders at Colorado College, a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs that admits about 11 percent of applicants, say the effect of last week's rulings on the end race-conscious admissions will likely mirror what happened in Michigan and California when affirmative action was banned at the local legislative level.