CBS Sacramento: How California’s private universities will be affected by Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action

June 29. 2023

ERA Executive Director Noreen Farrell was interviewed live on CBS Sacramento about how the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision could affect Californians:

But Noreen Farrell, Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates says the decision — which referenced California’s Prop. 209 — didn’t look hard enough at the impact of that legislation.

“What was not listed up by the justices sufficiently were the outcomes of Prop. 209 in terms of lost contracts and millions of dollars for women and minority-owned business and a 50 percent decrease of Black representation at UCs,” Farrell explains.

Watch the interview/read a transcript.