Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here is some background information about affirmative action as well as a few notable court cases. Affirmative action policies ...

Perspective: There may be a real case against UCLA’s medical school. But it also shows the limits of MAGA’s favorite word: ...

Of the almost four thousand degree-granting colleges in the United States, only a very small portion are highly selective. These are the institutions that the Supreme Court’s decision striking down ...

The Supreme Court nixed affirmative action programs for admission decisions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina in a major ruling Thursday. Chief Justice John Roberts penned the ...

The front lines for the fight around affirmative action has moved to military academies after the Supreme Court banned the practice at most universities in 2023. Advocates for ending race-conscious ...

When the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in June, it triggered a new “colorblind” college admissions paradigm that will add to the burden of students who are already loaded down with ...

It has been over two years since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions, a decision that thrust some of the country's most elite colleges and universities into the ...

With a conservative majority on the bench, the recent Supreme Court ruling to strike down affirmative action was widely expected. One unexpected twist, however, was an inconspicuous footnote exempting ...

The US Supreme Court effectively prohibited university admissions officers from giving preferential treatment to applicants based on their race this summer. Many medical-school leaders decried the ...

For decades, the question of affirmative action — whether colleges should consider race when deciding which students to admit — has been the subject of national debate. And as the nation's highest ...

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 ...