With a conservative majority on the bench, the recent Supreme Court ruling to strike down affirmative action was widely expected. One unexpected twist, however, was an inconspicuous footnote exempting ...
NPR's A Martinez talks to Whitney Gouche of EMERGE, a group helping high-achieving students in low-income areas, about reaction to the court's decision to ban affirmative action from higher education.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that race-conscious admissions in higher education, commonly known as affirmative action, is unconstitutional. The court considered two cases related to affirmative ...
Affirmative action is done, but some schools may be using it to solve the crisis of boys and college
We all thought affirmative action was struck down when the Supreme Court ruled in the Students for Fair Admissions case in 2023. But some schools appear to be giving a boost to an unexpected group: ...
Fewer students in this fall’s class of college freshmen chose to disclose their race or ethnicity in their applications to some top schools, data shows. The pattern, which is nuanced and only affects ...
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 ...
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The effects of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action will take time to materialize—but a 2013 Harvard study found that after affirmative action ended in key states “sharp ...
The U.S. Supreme Court held that university admissions programs that rely, in part, on racial considerations violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. But the opposite is true: In my ...
In a video posted to X, conservative political commentator and conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson declared Affirmative Action to be an act of “anti-racism.” He captioned the six-minute-long video, ...
Students walk past the Doe Memorial Library on the University of California, Berkeley campus on Feb. 3, 2022. Courtesy Thalia Juarez/CalMatters. California voters may soon vote on whether they support ...
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