Voices in Education Blog of Harvard Education Publishing
Published on November 16, 2012
Those of us in the social science community who have been following the Fisher case know that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision, like the 2003 decisions in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, could have a lasting impact on the practices and policies of postsecondary institutions across the country.
Author:
Liliana M. Garces
Dr. Garces posted her observations in while an assistant professor of higher education at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at The George Washington University. She served as counsel-of-record in a brief filed by 444 American social science researchers as amici curiae in support of the University of Texas at Austin.