Mayor Cherelle L. Parker faced criticism last week for quietly eliminating racial diversity goals from city contracting in what appeared to be a preemptive concession to the conservative legal ...
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 ...
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. With a new Supreme Court term beginning ...
The Yale law professor Justin Driver considers the legal arguments for and against the policy, as well as alternative ways to ensure diversity on campuses. By Michael S. Roth Michael S. Roth is the ...
T wo years ago, the Supreme Court eliminated affirmative action in a case called Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA). That opinion quickly transformed ...
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 Supreme Court's 2023 ruling on affirmative action led to decreased URIM medical school applications and acceptance rates, particularly affecting Black students. Despite increased Asian and White ...
The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) sent a notice of legal action to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz concerning his state’s allegedly discriminatory hiring policies on Monday. AFPI claimed the Minnesota ...
Listen to more stories on the Noa app. On her 64th birthday, in 2012, the conceptual artist Adrian Piper “retired from being black.” She posted a digitally altered portrait of herself, rendered in ...
Missouri State University is proposing changes to the Faculty Handbook, removing references to "diversity" and "affirmative action." The changes are driven by recent state and federal directives, ...
Colleges and universities have had to adjust their admissions processes after the Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action a couple of years ago. Author Richard Kahlenberg argues that ...
More than two-thirds of a random sample had “net worths of more than a million dollars each,” Sowell writes. “When some members of Congress publicly opposed such programs, Congressman Charles Rangel ...