Students for Fair Admissions
Students for Fair Admissions is an organization headed by Edward Blum that seeks to recruit students who have been rejected by selective universities and file lawsuits on their behalf. It has been described as an anti-affirmative action group.
An offshoot of the Project on Fair Representation, Blum has targeted Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He set up websites called harvardnotfair.org, uncnotfair.org, and uwnotfair.org to attract plaintiffs. Students for Fair Admissions, led by Blum, filed federal lawsuits against Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill in November 2014.. Those cases are still pending in federal district court. Unlike the Fisher case, in which the plaintiff, Abigail Fisher, made herself public, the students rejected by Harvard and UNC have not revealed their identities because they want to shield themselves from potential retaliation. The case has been taken to federal court and has garnered news coverage from major media outlets.
