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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Affirmative action, especially in terms of race, remains a controversial issue in modern politics. Driving the argument against the policy is the claim that its primary motivation of providing ...

President Donald Trump’s assault on what he broadly calls DEI has been slapdash and sadistic. That doesn’t mean the system under attack should be maintained. Racial preferencing in university ...

[Bertrand Cooper: The failure of affirmative action] Sowell helps explain why. “Affirmative action in the United States has made blacks, who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. Over the years, antidiscrimination policy has come to bear little ...

Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. President Donald Trump’s assault on what he broadly calls DEI has been ...