Students for Fair Admissions

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Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) is an organization headed by Edward Blum that represented over 20,000 students and parents of which the majorities are Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have been rejected by selective universities due to their races, and file lawsuits on their behalf.[1] It has been described as an anti-affirmative action group who objects using race as one of the factors in college admissions.[2]

An offshoot of the Project on Fair Representation, Blum has targeted Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He set up websites called harvardnotfair.org,[3] uncnotfair.org,[4] and uwnotfair.org[5] to attract plaintiffs. Students for Fair Admissions, led by Blum, filed federal lawsuits against Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill in November 2014. (SFFA has not sued UW-Madison thus far.) Those cases are still pending in federal district court.

Unlike the Fisher case, in which the plaintiff, Abigail Fisher, made herself public, the students rejected by Harvard and UNC have not revealed their identities because they want to shield themselves from potential retaliation.[6]

The case, Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, has been taken to federal court and has garnered news coverage from major media outlets.[7] The Harvard lawsuit was dismissed in October 2019,[8] and that ruling was subsequently upheld on appeal.[9] In February 2021, SFFA petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to review the case.[10]

In February 2021, SFFA sued Yale University, alleging the school’s admissions policies discriminate against Asian-American and white applicants.

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  1. ^ "Project on Fair Representation Files Suits against Harvard and UNC". Students For Fair Admissions. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  2. ^ Ko, Lisa, "Opinions: the Myth of the Interchangeable Asian," The New York Times, October 14, 2018
  3. ^ "Harvard University Not Fair". Not Fair Harvard. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  4. ^ "Not Fair: UNC". The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Not Fair. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  5. ^ "Not Fair: UW". The University of Wisconsin at Madison Not Fair. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  6. ^ Edwards, Giles (29 July 2016). "Abigail Fisher: Affirmative action plaintiff 'proud' of academic record". www.bbc.com. BBC News. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  7. ^ "'The wolf of racial bias': the admissions lawsuit rocking Harvard". TheGuardian.com. 18 October 2018.
  8. ^ Federal judge upholds affirmative action at Harvard
  9. ^ STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
  10. ^ Students for Fair Admissions Petitions SCOTUS to Take Up Suit Against Harvard’s Race-Conscious Admissions
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