Michelle Obama questioned outrage over affirmative action by saying college admissions for athletes and legacy students are essentially the same thing.

Has the effort to end race-based admissions in higher education—a major goal of conservative and libertarian institutions for years—resulted in significant harms to mostly white applicants? That is ...

In the later years of the second Obama administration, affirmative consent was all the rage. Affirmative consent refers to the idea that "no means no" doesn't cut it; when it comes to sex—or even ...

Affirmative action — the practice of giving special consideration to minority groups and women in hiring and school placement — once enjoyed widespread support in the United States. No more. Many ...

As my young family members hear back from colleges about admissions decisions, I recall my experience and how being accepted to Cornell quite literally changed the course of my life. The moment also ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting DEI programs, which also revoked Lyndon B. Johnson‘s 1965 Executive Order 11246. This order prohibited discrimination in hiring, promotion, ...

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 ...

Proponents for affirmative action in higher education rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 31, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla TNS By ruling that race and ethnicity cannot be ...

Watch the CBS Reports documentary "The End of Affirmative Action" in the video player above. WILMINGTON, Del. – A wall of the Rodriguez family home celebrates three seminal events with these words: "A ...

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