Elite Colleges Lose Diversity ‘Shortcut’ After Harvard’s Defeat (2)

Duke University is expanding aid to students from North and South Carolina. Princeton is consulting its lawyers. And at historically Black colleges, officials are watching for an influx of students.

Across the halls of America’s selective colleges and universities, administrators are dusting off contingency plans after the US Supreme Court effectively barred race as a factor in admissions. In arguing affirmative action programs violate the Constitution’s equal protection clause, the justices removed a longstanding method for institutions to bolster campus diversity.

Considering race in admissions, a matter brought before the Supreme Court in 1978 and then again in 2003, is just one way ...