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 ...

After Thursday's decision, the PBS NewsHour reached out to a handful of Americans who had responded to our poll to hear their reactions to the news. Jessie ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Decades later, the Supreme Court justice compared affirmative action to Jim Crow-era laws, saying the programs were used to justify segregation and slavery.

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

The affirmative action ban comes as health disparities in the U.S. worsen. Medical schools should take these steps to encourage diversity.

Many businesses have adopted policies to diversify hiring but the Supreme Court's ruling to end the policy in universities endangers those efforts.

There is an unspoken belief that Black people are intellectually inferior. Psychology played a central role in perpetuating this racist ideology. Black students ...

Universities in the US, by law, will no longer be allowed to discriminate to allow access to college education based on skin colour.

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

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