LAist

Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action In College Admissions

Two big cases from the U.S. Supreme Court today. The justices were deadlocked four to four on President Obama's plan to defer enforcement actions against millions of immigrants whose children are ...
JD Supra

President Trump Revokes Order Requiring Affirmative Action by Federal Contractors

During his first week in office, President Trump revoked an executive order that required larger federal contractors to create and implement affirmative action plans intended to increase the ...
JD Supra

President Trump Rescinds Affirmative Action for Federal Contractors and Requires Enforcement Plan to End Unlawful DEI at Private Companies

On January 21, 2025, President Trump signed a sweeping executive order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order”), rescinding affirmative action and ...
Twin Cities Daily Planet

VOICES | City’s lack of an affirmative action plan demeans us all

Affirmative action policies and practices are supposed to assist underserved and underrepresented populations in at least the offering of economic, employment, services, and other opportunities that ...
Yahoo! Sports

High court takes up Texas affirmative action plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up a challenge to a University of Texas program that considers race in some college admissions. The case could produce new limits on affirmative action at ...
Technical

Diverse teams can improve engineering outcomes — but recent affirmative action decision may hinder efforts to create diverse teams

It may seem intuitive that teams made up of people with a diversity of perspectives, experiences and backgrounds lead to more effective and inclusive outcomes. But the recent U.S. Supreme Court ...
The New York Times

Can You Create a Diverse College Class Without Affirmative Action?

After the Supreme Court effectively ended affirmative action in 2023, many selective colleges said they still prized racial diversity and planned to pursue it. But how might they do that? After the ...
FOX 5 Washington DC on MSN

What is DEI and what do the employees do? Here's why Trump placed federal staff on leave

President Donald Trump announced that all federal DEI employees would be placed on paid leave Wednesday. The sweeping ...
Inside Higher Ed

As Affirmative Action Ends, HBCUs Wait or Plan for the Fallout

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Carlotta Berry always wanted her daughter, a rising high school sophomore, to attend a historically ...
STAT

With affirmative action off the table, medical schools plan new diversity tactics

That’s how Consuelo Wilkins, the senior associate dean for health equity and inclusive excellence at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, describes medical schools’ current efforts to maintain ...
The Conversation

Diverse teams can improve engineering outcomes − but recent affirmative action decision may hinder efforts to create diverse teams

Lorraine Dowler receives funding from the National Science Foundation. As a geographer and feminist scholar, my work centers on how diverse engineering teams can create space for better collaborations ...