And yet, when the numbers came in, several of the most selective colleges in the country reported the opposite results. Yale, ...

(In Students for Fair Admissions, the Court had found that Harvard’s race-conscious admissions policies discriminated against Asian applicants.) [Rose Horowitch: The perverse consequences of ...

Bakke, in which a fragmented U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of racial quotas but affirmed the legitimacy of considering race ... holistic admissions system” as practiced by Harvard ...

Newly confirmed U.S. secretary of defense Pete Hegseth issued a memo Jan. 29 ordering the Department of Defense to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and offices—including ...

And that growth will likely continue into the future after the 21-year-old organization recently added three new university partners to its roster: Bates College, the University of Richmond and, most ...

Monday's lawsuit followed the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection in June 2023 of affirmative action at colleges and universities, as it struck down race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard ...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the use of race as a factor in college admissions in a 6-3 decision in 2023. The justices decided two separate legal challenges over just how Harvard University – ...

That landmark decision upended decades of precedent by holding that the consideration of race in college admissions was unconstitutional. Students for Fair Admissions had challenged Harvard ...

which struck down race-conscious admissions practices in higher education. The landmark decision specifically targeted affirmative action programs at prestigious institutions such as Harvard ...