Between bombshell op-eds and a federal court case on college admissions, race-based affirmative action is back in the pundits' spotlight. Earlier this week, Peter Beinart joined Ross Douthat in ...
Today even supporters of affirmative action, particularly in higher education, acknowledge that the system is far from perfect, with not nearly enough students who are in need of equal opportunity ...
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Harvard released their shocking freshmen demographics in the second year since affirmative action was banned in the US. The percentage of Black and Hispanic students in the class of 2029 dropped ...
Faculty members voted to approve a proposal to remove references to affirmative action and other suggestions of race-based preferential treatment from the University’s Non-Discrimination Statement and ...
When the Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action, it included some words of comfort for Americans worried about declining diversity at the nation’s most selective universities. Chief ...
Michigan State University is ending its use of affirmative action in employment regarding race, sex, color, ethnicity and national origin to comply with an executive order signed by President Donald ...
There are areas where there may be a relationship between state and federal affirmative action requirements. While there may be a relationship between state and federal affirmative action requirements ...
Right now the Supreme Court holds the fate of affirmative action in its hands, and things don’t look good. Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin pits a school that believes affirmative action and ...
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Making college access a lot more equal

In 2017, the Philippines passed the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act, more commonly known as the “Free ...
Affirmative action occupies a telling place in a nation painfully aware of its racial inequities yet painfully divided over how to solve them. Great numbers of Americans support the overarching goals ...
Richard D. Kahlenberg has long argued for colleges to weigh socioeconomic status to promote diversity. His position is more relevant than ever. By James Traub James Traub is the author, most recently, ...