Since 2008, Abigail Noel Fisher of Sugar Land has been the face of America's debate over affirmative action. Fisher is the plaintiff in a case challenging the University of Texas at Austin's use of ...

Affirmative action is a “positive” form of discrimination, according to a new book written by University Trustee Randall Kennedy ’77 that was released by Pantheon Books this month. In "For ...

The ability of law schools to maintain or increase minority enrollment, particularly among Black, Hispanic, and Native American students, in the wake of the affirmative action ban is key for the legal ...

Whenever people try to tell me that affirmative action admissions policies give black people (and by extension other nonblack people of color) an unfair advantage, I always have to remind them that ...

Students at the University of California’s elite Berkeley campus. Berkeley and UCLA saw a 40 percent drop in Black and Latino student enrollment following the passage in 1996 of Proposition 209, a ...

At a moment when diversity and equity efforts have been normalized across many organizations, including the University of Tennessee, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision on affirmative action has ...

New guidance from the Biden administration on Monday urges colleges to use a range of strategies to promote racial diversity on campus after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in ...

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The aftermath of this summer's Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College continues to gather momentum after the court reversed course on ...

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