In September of 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new state law banning legacy admissions in higher education. This policy prevents private colleges from considering students’ familial ...

On January 21, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” which can be found here. This Order seeks to ...

David Cohen, M.S., Dave Sharrer, M.S. In June 2023, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) v. President & Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard) and SFFA ...

I champion affirmative action and thus derive little satisfaction from the Supreme Court’s ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas. True, I am relieved that the court, the most reactionary we have had ...

Minority- and women-owned businesses are bracing for the end of affirmative action in federal contracting - and the potential loss of contracts worth at least $70 billion a year - as government ...

The forces that have been defeating affirmative action programs in America’s colleges — and even a local angel investor group — seem to be headed for a new target: West Point. Last year, the U.S.

President Donald Trump’s administration is scrutinizing higher education. Last week, the White House issued a memorandum requiring all universities receiving federal funds to submit admissions data on ...

Affirmative action, as we know it, is probably doomed. When you ask top Obama administration officials and people in the federal court system about the issue, you often hear a version of that ...

Taking steps to combat racism and historical underrepresentation is, itself, racism. That is the general premise of a proposal by state Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Jonesboro) to eliminate any consideration ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON ? President Bush, stepping into the most politically charged affirmative action case in a generation, asserted Wednesday that a program of racial preferences for minority applicants at the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that new haven, Conn., violated 20 white and Hispanic firefighters’ rights by scrapping a promotions test that few black candidates passed leaves city officials in a ...