(Excerpts from the News&Observer)

• UNC-Chapel Hill did not discriminate against white and Asian American applicants and can keep using race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions process, a federal judge ruled Monday.
• UNC uses a “highly individualized, holistic admissions program” when deciding who gets in and considers race as one of many factors for each applicant, Judge Loretta Biggs said in her ruling.
• The university has also seriously considered race-neutral strategies, including using new recruiting strategies, offering more financial aid and admitting more transfer students, she said.
• “While no student can or should be admitted to this University, or any other, based solely on race, because race is so interwoven in every aspect of the lived experience of minority students, to ignore it, reduce its importance and measure it only by statistical models as SFFA has done, misses important context to include obscuring racial barriers and obstacles that have been faced, overcome and are yet to be overcome,” Biggs said.