The forces that have been defeating affirmative action programs in America’s colleges — and even a local angel investor group — seem to be headed for a new target: West Point. Last year, the U.S.

In February, the California State Assembly passed, by a 54–14 vote, a measure seeking to place on the November ballot a ...

THE CLAIM: Affirmative action is the main reason why Black people enter higher education, not because of their own merit. The majority of Black students do not meet the standard academic criteria ...

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In one of his first acts as President in his second term in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 21, 2025, entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based ...

Tyler Lynn, a Spanish instructor at a high school in southern Oregon, is suing the state over a rebate program that covers the cost of teaching licenses for racial minorities and nonnative English ...

Just days into taking office, President Trump delivered on his campaign promises to dismantle DEI programs in federal agencies. On January 20 and 21, President Trump issued two such executive orders ...

Michigan State University is ending its use of affirmative action in employment regarding race, sex, color, ethnicity and national origin to comply with an executive order signed by President Donald ...

WASHINGTON ? President Bush, stepping into the most politically charged affirmative action case in a generation, asserted Wednesday that a program of racial preferences for minority applicants at the ...

Minority- and women-owned businesses are bracing for the end of affirmative action in federal contracting — and the potential loss of contracts worth at least $70 billion a year — as government ...

Can a class-based approach to affirmative action pick up where recently legally prohibited race-based policies left off? In theory, yes, if colleges give a substantial admissions boost to lower-income ...