Center for Equal Opportunity Launches “After Affirmative Action Network”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Rudy Gersten (202) 886-2000
Friday, November 10, 2023

(Washington, D.C) The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) announced Friday the launch of the After Affirmative Action (AAA) Network to monitor compliance with the Supreme Court decisions last term outlawing the use of race in college admissions. The AAA Network will serve as a clearinghouse to gather and distribute information on how schools are changing their admissions practices to ensure compliance with the decisions.

Since 1995, CEO has developed an extensive network of friends and allies who provide a ready-made base for the AAA Network. CEO invites participation in the project from faculty, administrators, students, alumni, and other interested parties across the country who can share information on admissions changes at their schools. CEO will provide journalists, lawmakers, litigators, and others access to this information through periodic briefings and by sharing open records request findings and analyses.

CEO founder and chairman Linda Chavez commented, “Since its founding, CEO has been involved in every major Supreme Court case and state initiative to eliminate race discrimination in college admission. The AAA Network is the next stage of our decades of work to advance colorblind equal opportunity and equality under the law for every American.”

A timeline documenting the nearly 30-year history of CEO work to eliminate racial discrimination in admissions can be found here alongside an online portal for individuals who would like to anonymously share information with the AAA Network.

CEO president and general counsel Devon Westhill addressed the importance of the AAA Network in his remarks during the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention on Friday: “Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the Harvard/UNC cases that ‘[e]liminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.’ CEO has always and will continue through this project and others to advocate for that position. We are passionate about that not just because it is the legally and morally right position but also, because it provides an opportunity to direct attention, resources, and effort to solving the underlying problems such as poor K-12 education, poverty, and broken families that are the principal causes of socioeconomic underachievement for people of all races.”

The Center for Equal Opportunity is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational organization that studies issues of race and ethnicity nationwide.

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