Affirmative action supporters and counterprotesters shout at each other outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 29, 2023.
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Even before the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action policies in college admissions, the nation’s top business leaders expressed concern over how the decision could affect their own diversity goals and hiring practices.
Major companies, including Apple, General Electric, Google, Salesforce and Starbucks, argued ”racial and ethnic diversity enhance business performance” and filed a brief in support of Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, the two schools at the center of the case, reaffirming the importance of student-body diversity on college campuses.
The businesses said they “depend on universities to recruit, admit, and train highly qualified, racially and ethnically diverse students to become the employees and business leaders of the future.”
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2023-08-06 06:00:01
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