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Corporate diversity after the US Supreme Court’s college admissions ruling

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The Supreme Court’s decision on college-based affirmative action programs in June poses a challenge to US companies’ DE&I efforts, experts say.

On June 29, the US Supreme Court ruled in the case Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College to end the four-decade long practice by universities and colleges of considering the race of their applicants during the admissions process.

The ruling said the race-conscious policies at