Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down minority scholarship program

Wisconsin Supreme Court chambers. Photo by David Wise, State Affairs Pro-Wisconsin, WisPolitics.

Promoting diversity in the student body and improving retention rates for some minority students isn’t a sufficient reason for the state to award scholarships based on race, the state Supreme Court ruled. In doing so, the justices yesterday unanimously upheld an appellate court ruling that struck down the Minority Undergraduate Retention Grant Program. In both decisions, a U.S. Supreme Court rulin...

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