In an article published by the News & Observer, managing partner and co-founder of EducationCounsel LLC Arthur Coleman discussed an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision this summer on two cases involving collegiate affirmative action policies.

The timeline “implicates lots of change, probably in a very short period of time,” said Coleman. “There’s a lot of planning going on now by a lot of institutions to really think through the what I call the ‘what-if’ outcomes that might occur, and to begin to brainstorm about strategies and options that may set the stage for further discussion in the wake of the court decision, and then action over the course of the summer and fall.”

Art provides policy, strategic, and legal counseling services to national nonprofit organizations, school districts, state agencies, and postsecondary institutions throughout the country. He previously served as deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), where, in the 1990s, he led the department’s development of the department’s Title VI policy on race-conscious financial aid, as well as OCR’s first comprehensive Title IX sexual harassment policy guidance.     

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