After Supreme Court justices Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, officials at colleges, universities and others in Chattanooga and Tennessee said it’s too soon to know the effect.
In college admissions, affirmative action is a practice that considers an applicant’s race as one factor when reviewing applications.
Opponents argued it unfairly favors students from racial minority groups and that it could be removing spots from white and Asian students — who tend to be overrepresented on college campuses compared to the general population nationwide.
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U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, praised the decision on Twitter, calling affirmative action wrong and un-American.