Affirmative action

Any proper obituary for affirmative action (1961-2023) in higher education would be obliged to note that it had been in decline for years before it met its ...

I agree with that statement from the dissents — from the dissent. The Court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions. And I strongly — ...

People associate affirmative action with ending discrimination against people of color. But women are the greatest beneficiaries, scholars say.

The court wrote affirmative action is unconstitutional, dissenters argue colorblindness is a "superficial rule"

Sean Reardon, C. Matthew Snipp, Ralph Richard Banks, David Grusky, Eujin Park, and Anthony Antonio consider the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling ...

Students, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, must be evaluated based on their experiences "as an individual — not on the basis of race."

The Supreme Court's affirmative action decision could upend how students apply to college, and how they are judged. Here's how.

In a 6-3 decision, the court's six conservative justices declared that colleges' use of race as a factor in student admissions is unconstitutional. They cited ...

The Court ruled 6-2 against Harvard and 6-3 against the University of North Carolina in twin lawsuits filed by Students for Fair Admissions, an anti-affirmative ...

The Supreme Court's landmark decision shooting down affirmative action could hurt the college-to-career pipeline many companies lean on to diversify their ...

With help from Ella Creamer, Rishika Dugyala, Jesse Naranjo and Teresa Wiltz. Demonstrators protest outside of the Supreme Court in Washington.

A similar drop took place at the University of California's most selective schools after Proposition 209 in 1996 banned race-conscious admissions. That year, ...

The ruling prohibits the consideration of race in admissions, prompting analysis and discussion on its practical implications for future college admissions.

Editor's note: Harvard Magazine asked contributing editor Lincoln Caplan, a leading legal-affairs journalist, to analyze the Supreme Court rulings on ...

Kevin Welner, a lawyer and professor of education at CU Boulder, explained that individual college applicants can still mention how their race or ethnicity ...

The Supreme Court decision on college admissions could lead companies to alter recruitment and promotion practices to pre-empt legal challenges.

Educators saw the Supreme Court decision as endorsing the use of a tool used by medical, dental, and nursing schools to diversify classes.

The impacts of the decision on university admission systems are sweeping and immediate: universities may not make use of race-based admission systems, which ...

Nearly a decade has passed since Students for Fair Admissions, or S.F.F.A., first filed a lawsuit against Harvard University over its race-based admissions ...

The Supreme Court first upheld college affirmative action programs in 1978 after schools began using race-conscious admissions to address discrimination against ...