South Africa eases affirmative action regulations on Starlink and others that Musk said were racist

South Africa’s communications minister has ordered a policy change that allows Elon Musk's Starlink and other foreign-owned ...

Without affirmative action, elite colleges are prioritizing economic diversity in admissions

Some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges have been enrolling record numbers of low-income students as campuses ...
Reason

Should Affirmative Action End?

Princeton University professor Paul Frymer and Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley debate the resolution, "The U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 decision to dismantle affirmative action in American ...
City Journal

A Failed Elegy for Affirmative Action

The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education, by Justin Driver (Columbia Global Reports, 280 pp., $18) For decades, American universities practiced ...
The Hill

What’s the deal with affirmative action?

Twenty-five years ago, in an episode of Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiam” television series titled “Affirmative Action,” the comedian’s friend Richard Lewis introduces him to Dr. Grambs, a Black ...
The Atlantic

So Much for Class-Based Affirmative Action

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 ...
The New York Times

Affirmative Action Is Dead. What Should Universities Do Now?

The Yale law professor Justin Driver considers the legal arguments for and against the policy, as well as alternative ways to ensure diversity on campuses. By Michael S. Roth Michael S. Roth is the ...
American Bar Association

Reverse Discrimination in the Spotlight: Recent Developments and Econometric Approaches

Reverse discrimination cases involve claims that nonminority individuals were discriminated against “on the basis of race, or other characteristics or attributes.” A key theory used in recent reverse ...
WBUR

Author calls for class-based affirmative action in higher education

Colleges and universities have had to adjust their admissions processes after the Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action a couple of years ago. Author Richard Kahlenberg argues that ...
Military Times

Hegseth bans affirmative action at military service academies

In a new memo, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has barred the U.S. military service academies from considering race, gender or ethnicity in their admissions processes. (SrA. Madelyn Keech/DOD) Defense ...
KETV Omaha

University of Nebraska Board of Regents approve change to bylaws for affirmative action, diversity

THE NEBRASKA BOARD OF REGENTS APPROVED REMOVING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND DIVERSITY DIRECTIVES FROM ITS BYLAWS AND POLICIES. IT COMES AFTER THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SENT A LETTER TO ALL ...
Reason

Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 1

My article Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action has finally been published by the Florida Law Review. In these days of federal attacks on private DEI, ...