ACS responds to recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action

News Releases June 30, 2023 2:00 PM PDT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WASHINGTON, June 30, 2023 — The American Chemical Society (ACS) is deeply disappointed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on June 29 to strike down race-based affirmative action as a criterion in college admissions. As a professional scientific society that has long championed an inclusive chemistry enterprise, this ruling is counter to the Society’s core value of diversity, equity, inclusion and respect (DEIR).

For decades, ACS has worked to implement the principles of DEIR within its membership, staff and leadership with the goal of building an inclusive and equitable community across the chemistry enterprise. The Society believes that only through an enduring commitment to diversity in all its forms will excellence, innovation and transformative action by current and future generations of chemistry professionals be enabled. Ensuring the vibrancy of the chemistry workforce will lead to superior solutions to world challenges and advance chemistry as a global, multidisciplinary science.

ACS will continue to prioritize the work of DEIR for everyone seeking to participate in scientific academia and the broader chemistry enterprise.

To learn more about ACS’ commitment to DEIR, visit https://www.acs.org/about/diversity.html to see the resources, programs and partnerships ACS supports to embrace and advance inclusion in chemistry. ACS’ strategic plan and core values can be found here: https://www.acs.org/about/strategicplan.html. 

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