College Admissions and Race, Student Debt Ruling, Actors Union Negotiations
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How are universities answering a supreme court ruling on their admission?

The court said lead schools may not use races of factor. The schools say that will link diversity harder, but they still .

want to achieve IT la afforded that Steven skip, and this is a first from N. P. R. news. The supreme court also has opinions on paying for college is about a rule on whether president bite and student loan forgiveness gram can be ahead. Plants will want to cancel the plan to cancel debts for tens of millions of people.

Also, union negotiations for hollywood .

actors are.

Also, line be extended. Well, actors join hollywood writers on the picket line. Stay tuned. I'll give you the news. You need to start day.

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we have some preliminary answers to have. A supreme court ruling affects university admissions.

Yeah, the court majority rejected elaborate policies at harvard and the university of north CarOlina. Both elite ite schools considered race as one factor to decide on which students get in. The ruling says that vio oates, the constitution requirement for equal treatment regardless of race. The center said the constitution promises equality, and that was all right for schools to act on that promise.

And a little warning is here. Good morning.

Good morning. First.

how did the court explained its ruling?

So chief justice john Roberts wrote the majority opinion, and he said, however well intention, the policies at un, sy and harvard were they failed to use race within the narrow confines of what the constitution allows. He did leave the door open, writing that schools could consider an applications discussion of how race affected his or her life. I talked about this with sea partial Perry shes, a senior legal fellow at the heritage foundation, who was encouraged by the decision.

The court is clear that universities can consider an applicant discussion of that how race affected their individual lives, but we will no longer see individuals checking a box or being subjected to a college or university's quota system.

So universities don't really have quotas, but harvard was using a point system to rate students identities.

And this is the thing the court says is wrong. Now, if you had an individual experience with race that you want to talk about in your application, you can do that, but you no longer get credit, the court says, for being member of a group. So called what our colleagues is an admissions s profession saying about all that.

So even though was expected, it's a major blow to colleges who are committed to diverse campuses. I talk with Angel of press. He leads the national association of college admission counseling.

Today's decision is going to make IT a lot harder um and a lot more expensive for institutions of higher education and admission officers to bring a diverse class.

He points to the university of california there IT took decades a complete admissions redesign in hundreds of millions of dollars to try and get those diversity numbers back up after the state's affirmative action ban in the late one thousand nine hundred nineties. He says most states, most colleges don't have that kind of money or political will.

This is an interesting point because you're telling me the universities in response to this and not saying we're abandoning diversity, they're saying we're going to try to get diversity in some other way. Does this affect every university?

Well, IT is a nationwide ruling, but most schools are open access in community college. Lots of no public four year schools. Only a small portion about two hundred have highly selective admissions where this decision would apply.

But what happens at a lead institution matters. They're tekewani to power in america. Take the spring core justices. Currently, eight of the nine attended last school at harvard or year.

What does this mean for high school students who might be applying to college?

You I spoke with on a Mitchell. He's a long time high school council in washington, D. C, he's been working with the students already to kind of reframe their essays to touch on their lived experience. But he says, this whole thing has caused a lot of aniele.

So students are asking the questions like bow, does my identity not matter anymore? Does that not mean that we are only going to be relegated to h bc. use? And those are the thoughtful ful responses, at least that the other kind of responses that where here and is op, I guess they really don't want us to go to college. You know where they always say the colleges .

and for everyone, hc, historical black colleges, universities. What can colleagues do within the law? Now to be improve diversity? Well.

we're gona see a focus on essays, increased recruitment, expanded financial ID. But over and over again, research shows, you know, nothing is as effective as creating a racially diverse and body as .

considering race. Thanks so much. 一般。

Now i'll talk about college tuition because as soon as today, the supreme court will release one of its most anticipated opinions.

one that has tens of millions of americans on the other other seat, the court will decide whether to preserve or hey, bit. President bidens planned to a raise billions of dollars in federal student.

On that N P S, correct? N has been covering that moved by the by administration morning.

What are the art court is basically grappling with two big legal questions here. First is president bindings. That plan legal is IT constitutional, the administration argues, obviously, yes, because of a long known as the heroes ac that passed not that long after the attacks of nine eleven.

And IT gave the education secretary really broad power to modify or wave student loan rules. Those are the verbs in the law. In times of emergency, the administration argues emergency like the pandemic. Now the plans, conservative opponents argue, a racing some four hundred billion dollars and student loans isn't just modifying the rules. Here's the republican chairwoman of the house education committee, Virginia fox, several weeks ago.

What the president has done is take on the role of congress to appropriate money, from the taxpayers to people who willingly took on a debt. I think what he has done is totally illegal.

And fox says, if congress really wanted to erase all these student loans, IT would have done so itself. A IT is worth noting, Steve, that during oral arguments, the court conservative majority seem to agree.

okay, seem to agree on that point. But what was the other point that could design this case?

yes. So the other question they're trying to answer may actually be the by administrations only hope here. And that is, can any of these plaintives prove they'd be hurt by dead cancellation because, see, the court won't even rule on a case if the plant tips don't have what's called standing to sue in the first place.

So in one of these cases, he was brought by a pair of barbers, one of whom doesn't qualify for relief because of the kind of loans they have. The other qualifies for ten thousand dollars and cancellation. But once to qualify for more, the other case that was brought by six conservative states, including the braska, and they've tried to show harm by saying a major student loan serving company, the bar was no as mohel would lose business and that would hurt the status .

in missouri. okay. That doesn't sound like they absolutely have found someone who is directly harmed.

No, because the company mohel isn't even a plant of in the case. Here's purchase, you sheat the student barrow protection center.

There really is no way that any of these planets have standing under existing case law. This is the reason why we saw the republican appointed discord level judge throughout the case in nebraska by then.

What's not clear, Steve, is how the court's conserve majority is going to weigh the standing issues against their clear concerns about the plan's legality.

How many people and how much money would be affected here?

Yeah, I mean, as many as forty three million people could be affected here. As many as twenty million could have their that's erased. Then again, critics of the plan say, look, this could cost four hundred billion dollars, and IT would privilege americans who went to college over those who couldn't or chose not to.

N, P. R. education. Corresponding return.

Thanks is always your welcome, Steve.

We have a hollywood Cliff hanger. Next, actors have a strike deadline tonight.

The union, known by the acronym sag after, has been negotiating with the alliance of motion picture and television producers for several weeks. But if they don't reach an agreement or extend the deadline, the actors would walk out as the writers already did.

Eh, mentally, the barco was covering this hayter.

Hey, Steve.

so how close birthday to a deal? Well.

you know, early this week, things seem to be looking good. Sag, after president friend dress, you may remember her from the TV showed the nani well, SHE sent a video message. Have negotiations to members.

Well, Frankly, it's very confidential what's going on in there. But I just want to assure you that we are having an extremely productive negotiations that are laser focus on all of the crucial issues you told us are most important to you. And we're standing strong and we're going to achieve a seminal deal.

Love that familiar voice, but please go on yeah know .

some of those crucial issues SHE was talking about include getting Better residuals from hit shows on the streaming platforms. And also a big concern for the actors is getting protected from the use of artificial intelligence. Actors are afraid their images and their work is going to be replaced .

by A I A miro of one of the concerns in the writers strike. But if they seemed close on these things, why might they still strike?

Well, apparently many of the members were worried that the negotiators weren't standing firm. If, you know, nearly all of them, ninety eight percent, had already voted to authorize a strike if needed. And after friend dressers message went out, actors sent them a letter urging them not to settle for a deal and saying they were ready to strike.

That was signed by three hundred members, including allister's mayor strip, Jennifer Lawrence and quinton brinson. And by the following day, the list group to more than a thousand performance, including amy polar, walking phoenix, jamey kurtis and pedro pasa. And um this is the most curious part of Steve friend.

Russia often signed the letter that was addressed to herself and other sag after the leaders, you know. So we'll have to see if they call a strike. And you know, for full transparency, I do have to say that many of us here and P R, our members of sag after, but we're not covered under the TV theatrical contract. So we would not be expected to go on strike if one is called.

Nevertheless, if the actors go on strike, they would join the writers on strike. What's that been like in recent days?

Yeah, well, you have have gone to so many of the picket lines these past two months. And i've met a lot of actors who've been protesting in solidarity with writers, some of them famous, some of them background extras, and all of them told me that they're ready to strike. Yesterday I was outside netflix where striking writers got a special visit from lilly tomlin and jane funda. Here's what funda told the crowd about the studios .

and the streamers. 我 只好， if the actors go out with the writers, this industry will be shut down.

So I should mention sty that the last time there was a dull strike in hollywood IT was nineteen sixty. The screen actors skilled hadn't yet merged with after. And that was LED by then actor ronal ragon, long before he was president. And the actors join with the writers to demand they get paid residuals if movies were played on T, V. Now they're asking for residuals from the streamers.

Okay, some things change to stay the same mentally. Thanks so much. Thank you.

And there's metal bargo. Our culture corresponded in s Angels. And that's at first for this friday, june thirty, on Steve and .

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