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 ...

Population parity in admissions to elite universities was one crucial canary that tested the air in the nation’s many caverns ...

A little noticed DEI lawsuit filed by the Justice Department challenging affirmative action in the workplace may be headed to the Supreme Court.

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 ...

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President Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting DEI programs, which also revoked Lyndon B. Johnson‘s 1965 Executive Order 11246. This order prohibited discrimination in hiring, promotion, ...

On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order revoking Executive Order 11246, which imposes anti-discrimination and affirmative action requirements on federal government contractors ...

Just days into taking office, President Trump delivered on his campaign promises to dismantle DEI programs in federal agencies. On January 20 and 21, President Trump issued two such executive orders ...

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 ...

Proponents for affirmative action in higher education rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 31, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla TNS By ruling that race and ethnicity cannot be ...

As my young family members hear back from colleges about admissions decisions, I recall my experience and how being accepted to Cornell quite literally changed the course of my life. The moment also ...

With a conservative majority on the bench, the recent Supreme Court ruling to strike down affirmative action was widely expected. One unexpected twist, however, was an inconspicuous footnote exempting ...