When Affirmative Action Was White Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of ...

Whenever people try to tell me that affirmative action admissions policies give black people (and by extension other nonblack people of color) an unfair advantage, I always have to remind them that ...

We all thought affirmative action was struck down when the Supreme Court ruled in the Students for Fair Admissions case in 2023. But some schools appear to be giving a boost to an unexpected group: ...

The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education, by Justin Driver (Columbia Global Reports, 280 pp., $18) For decades, American universities practiced ...

Jason Riley makes his living by his pen — and wastes no ink or time mincing words. “There’s a lot of intellectual cowardice going on in the country right now, and it’s a product, I think, of the ...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a Presidential Memorandum on Thursday ordering higher education institutions to hand over their admissions data in order to prove they are not engaging in ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Black enrollment is declining sharply at elite colleges in the two years since the Supreme Court banned ...

The Trump administration moved Wednesday to dismantle one of the federal government’s largest and longest-standing affirmative action programs, siding with two White-owned contracting businesses that ...