The Opportunity Atlas, a tool Yale introduced in the admissions process for the class of 2028, might explain Yale’s sustained racial demographics post-affirmative action. In 2022, Yale argued in a ...

The Supreme Court issued its decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFAI) v. President and Fellows of Harvard and SFAI v. University of North Carolina today. The court said that admissions ...

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 ...

While California has banned the practice of race-conscious admissions for almost three decades, the Supreme Court's decision to end affirmative action still brings changes to higher education in the ...

Ever since U.S. President Lyndon Johnson enacted affirmative action in 1965, white conservatives have challenged the use of race in college admissions. Their arguments against such policies are ...

The Supreme Court came to a long-awaited decision on affirmative action yesterday. In a sweeping 6–3 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, it held that colleges cannot consider race as a ...

The United States Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that affirmative action programs at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional, finding in two majority opinions ...

People often associate affirmative action with efforts to end discrimination for people of color. But scholars say the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action policies are white women, from ...

On June 29, the Supreme Court released its much-anticipated decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, ruling that both Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s consideration of race ...

The demise of the old version of affirmative action is likely to affect some of its previous beneficiaries much more than others. By David Leonhardt Two economists — Ran Abramitzky of Stanford and ...

The Supreme Court decision upholding affirmative action is incoherent, disingenuous, intellectually muddled and morally confused. Yet it is welcome. Let me explain. Affirmative action began as an ...