Affirmative action

Any proper obituary for affirmative action (1961-2023) in higher education would be obliged to note that it had been in decline for years before it met its ...

People associate affirmative action with ending discrimination against people of color. But women are the greatest beneficiaries, scholars say.

The court wrote affirmative action is unconstitutional, dissenters argue colorblindness is a "superficial rule"

The Supreme Court killed affirmative action, but not for military academies or the legacy admissions that protect the ruling class.

The justices of the Supreme Court posing for a portrait. They are wearing black robes. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected affirmative action at colleges and ...

Students, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, must be evaluated based on their experiences "as an individual — not on the basis of race."

Sean Reardon, C. Matthew Snipp, Ralph Richard Banks, David Grusky, Eujin Park, and Anthony Antonio consider the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling ...

After Thursday's decision, the PBS NewsHour reached out to a handful of Americans who had responded to our poll to hear their reactions to the news. Jessie ...

The Supreme Court's affirmative action decision could upend how students apply to college, and how they are judged. Here's how.

In a 6-3 decision, the court's six conservative justices declared that colleges' use of race as a factor in student admissions is unconstitutional. They cited ...

The Supreme Court's landmark decision shooting down affirmative action could hurt the college-to-career pipeline many companies lean on to diversify their ...

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

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, ...

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

Editor's note: Harvard Magazine asked contributing editor Lincoln Caplan, a leading legal-affairs journalist, to analyze the Supreme Court rulings on ...

Liberals deliver scathing dissents after the conservative majority ends race-based college admissions.

The affirmative action ban comes as health disparities in the U.S. worsen. Medical schools should take these steps to encourage diversity.

The Supreme Court decision on college admissions could lead companies to alter recruitment and promotion practices to pre-empt legal challenges.

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

The impacts of the decision on university admission systems are sweeping and immediate: universities may not make use of race-based admission systems, which ...