Subira Murshid cheers for her grandson, Jelani Murshid-Jackson, at his graduation from the University of Missouri St. Louis on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. "Our family goes to college," she said.

Affirmative action is a “positive” form of discrimination, according to a new book written by University Trustee Randall Kennedy ’77 that was released by Pantheon Books this month. In "For ...

7: Missouri State University (away) — Feb. 8, 2026 The Ducks take on a lower-tier program to kick off the year once again, and the Bears... The Supreme Court is currently weighing the arguments about ...

Re “Post-affirmative action policy offers new hope for Asian American students,” Opinion, Dec. 14: Last week, the Supreme Court affirmed the legality of Boston Public Schools’ admissions process and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Right now the Supreme Court holds the fate of affirmative action in its hands, and things don’t look good. Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin pits a school that believes affirmative action and ...

Two years after the Supreme Court ruled to abolish affirmative action in higher education admissions, Black enrollment at selective universities is down, Asian American enrollment is up and the ...

Asian American students made up almost half of the 2028 class — the first admitted since the end of affirmative action. By Anemona Hartocollis and Stephanie Saul The Massachusetts Institute of ...

After a long-anticipated wait, the United States Supreme Court recently deferred ruling on the merits of the affirmative action case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, instead sending it back ...

Enrollment for Black and Latino students dropped at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the first class formed after the Supreme Court found race-conscious admissions in colleges ...

In the first college admissions process since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action last year, Asian American enrollment at the most prestigious U.S. schools paints a mixed, uneven picture.