Affirmative Action, the Supreme Court and the Right Wing War on Higher Education

The Republican Party is trying to make higher education whiter, less affordable and academically weaker.

Over the last week the Supreme Court decided two cases that have direct bearing on higher education. In the first case the Court ruled that race may not be taken into consideration by colleges and universities when they are deciding which students to admit. In a different case, the Court ruled that President Biden’s student debt relief program is uncons…