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On January 21, the President issued an Executive Order with significant impact for Federal contractors and grantees. The EO upsets settled rules related to affirmative action plans and Department of ...

The University of California, San Diego, is coming up with creative ways to implement a form of affirmative action for admittance into its engineering programs. Affirmative action was illegal in ...

What has happened since the 2003 Supreme Court case that upheld narrowly designed affirmative action programs at public universities? Rather than universities approaching the point at which racial ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the predictably cynical ruling by an emboldened Supreme Court, one could decry the loss of an institutional compromise that was intended to rectify centuries of American racial injustice by ...

Since the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions, a chorus of voices has called for an ambitious—but costly—economic alternative. Some have suggested a class-based alternative to ...