College Affirmative Action Survives in Supreme Court Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court struck a compromise in its first test of university affirmative action in a decade, telling a federal appeals court to give tougher scrutiny to a University of Texas admissions program.

In a 7-1 ruling, the court left intact a 2003 decision that reaffirmed the right of universities to use race as a criterion for admissions. The majority instead said a federal appeals court hadn’t properly applied the standards laid out in the 2003 ruling.