Affirmative action

The Supreme Court decisions Thursday barring colleges from using race in their admissions processes became an immediate talking point in the 2024 campaign, with ...

Many businesses have adopted policies to diversify hiring but the Supreme Court's ruling to end the policy in universities endangers those efforts.

The ruling prohibits the consideration of race in admissions, prompting analysis and discussion on its practical implications for future college admissions.

In a pair of decisions the six conservative justices ruled that Harvard, the nation's oldest private college, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

With help from Ella Creamer, Rishika Dugyala, Jesse Naranjo and Teresa Wiltz. Demonstrators protest outside of the Supreme Court in Washington.

The Supreme Court has sent shockwaves through higher education with a landmark decision that struck down affirmative action and left colleges across the ...

The United States Supreme Court ruled along ideological lines that race-conscious admissions practices are unconstitutional. Here is what's next.

Proposals to the annual defense authorization bill would extend the Supreme Court's ban on the practice to military schools.

Decades later, the Supreme Court justice compared affirmative action to Jim Crow-era laws, saying the programs were used to justify segregation and slavery.

Two justices were sympathetic to group's argument that demands for diversity were to an extent rooted in a past desire to limit numbers of Jewish students.

A similar drop took place at the University of California's most selective schools after Proposition 209 in 1996 banned race-conscious admissions. That year, ...

Using data taken from the 2024, 2025, and 2026 Frosh Surveys by The Daily Princetonian, an analysis shows that students generally support affirmative action ...

Statement from Dr. Al Rankins Jr., Commissioner of Higher Education: In general, Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning undergraduates are admitted based ...

The Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities and numerous Catholic institutions of higher learning criticized the court's ruling.

Some high-schoolers of color now doubt their chances to get into a selective university. Some White students like their improved odds.

The Supreme Court first upheld college affirmative action programs in 1978 after schools began using race-conscious admissions to address discrimination against ...

Nearly a decade has passed since Students for Fair Admissions, or S.F.F.A., first filed a lawsuit against Harvard University over its race-based admissions ...

Educators saw the Supreme Court decision as endorsing the use of a tool used by medical, dental, and nursing schools to diversify classes.

In a statement regarding the Supreme Court's ruling to restrict affirmative action, the presidents of the NAS, NAE, and NAM stressed that the nation should ...

The Supreme Court released a series of historic rulings this week with far-reaching consequences for race, education, and elections in America.