Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here is some background information about affirmative action as well as a few notable court cases. Affirmative action policies ...

Of the almost four thousand degree-granting colleges in the United States, only a very small portion are highly selective. These are the institutions that the Supreme Court’s decision striking down ...

The Supreme Court nixed affirmative action programs for admission decisions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina in a major ruling Thursday. Chief Justice John Roberts penned the ...

The front lines for the fight around affirmative action has moved to military academies after the Supreme Court banned the practice at most universities in 2023. Advocates for ending race-conscious ...

It has been over two years since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions, a decision that thrust some of the country's most elite colleges and universities into the ...

When the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in June, it triggered a new “colorblind” college admissions paradigm that will add to the burden of students who are already loaded down with ...

A few minutes after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, an email from the 80-20 Initiative, a Chinese political action group, landed in my inbox with the subject head “VICTORY.” I racked ...

The US Supreme Court effectively prohibited university admissions officers from giving preferential treatment to applicants based on their race this summer. Many medical-school leaders decried the ...

For decades, the question of affirmative action — whether colleges should consider race when deciding which students to admit — has been the subject of national debate. And as the nation's highest ...

Twenty-five years ago, in an episode of Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiam” television series titled “Affirmative Action,” the comedian’s friend Richard Lewis introduces him to Dr. Grambs, a Black ...

In the wake of Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, affirmative-action proponents should pursue a First Amendment approach. Private universities, which are ...