Affirmative action

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

A 6-3 vote by the US Supreme Court has effectively ended American universities' right to favour disadvantaged students on the basis of race.

Last year, as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, ...

The court ruled race-conscious admissions violate the 14th Amendment. Here's what colleges and students may be able to do to ensure campus diversity.

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 ...

In a 6-3 decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court overturned nearly 50 years of precedent and held that it's unconstitutional for universities ...

CHICAGO: The US Supreme Court decision Wednesday to strike down the longstanding affirmative action laws requiring universities and colleges to give special ...

The Supreme Court has finally ruled that universities in the US are forbidden from admitting students on the basis of race.

The Supreme Court decisions Thursday barring colleges from using race in their admissions processes became an immediate talking point in the 2024 campaign, with ...

The first major fight came to a head in 1978, when the Supreme Court outlawed racial quotas in college admissions while saying race could still be considered as ...

An American flag coiled around a flag pole, within view of the Supreme Court building ... Mr. Walker is the president of the Ford Foundation.

The Supreme Court ended affirmative action in college admissions, but there are more potent remedies. Education reform can close the achievement gap that ...

Has America improved its education system to the point where affirmative action has become a diminishing tool to achieve racial equality? (The most recent ...

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

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

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled yesterday that race can no longer be considered as a factor in university admissions. 'The student must be ...

This week's Supreme Court rulings presage a busy season of political strategising ahead of the 2024 elections. One of the most consequential decisions of ...

“Unity Day” is over. By Xochitl Gonzalez. students at Brown. Lane Turner / The Boston Globe / Getty.

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, ...

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.

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

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