While many employers are working to strengthen their DEI programs and build more inclusive benefits, another ruling from the Supreme Court could hurt their progress, if not render them obsolete.
The Students for Fair Admissions or SFFA, a nonprofit group against race playing a role in college admissions, sued both Harvard and the University of North Carolina, calling their race-conscious admissions programs unconstitutional. The Supreme Court will make the final call, but given that the conservative justices, who hold a majority of six to three in the court, have already expressed unfavorable views towards affirmative action, the ruling seems more imminent than debatable. If the Supreme Court rules against the universities, then it will overturn a 40-year-long precedent.
