affirmative action

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the nation’s most highly selective four-year universities, announced last week that its incoming first-year class is less diverse than in previous years, attributing the change to the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban.

A landmark 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision ended the consideration of race in college admissions. But one year after the ruling, research shows the number of students of color applying to four-year colleges has increased.

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in a landmark ruling, effectively ending race-based college admissions. But what was meant to be a law targeting higher education institutions may have impacted other industries.

Roxbury lawyer Eddie Jenkins has distanced himself from Clarence Thomas, who was a friend and classmate at the College of the Holy Cross, because of the justice’s decisions on the Supreme Court.

New state guidance on diversity and equity in higher education is a positive step to move forward following the end of affirmative action in college admissions, local education leaders say.

Anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum and his fellow backward thinkers are at it again. An organization called the Equal Protection Project has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education against the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, targeting its Black Public Media Residency.

High school seniors of color could face a lot more challenges in both college applications and, longer term, hiring in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to ban race as a factor in college admissions.

The conservative wing of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, did what many people thought they might do but prayed they wouldn’t.

The six Supreme Court justices who last week struck down affirmative action in college admissions ignored America’s legacy of slavery and segregation, while the three dissenting justices, all of whom are women, recognized this history of slavery and its continuing effects in colleges.

Kyra Tyler used to work as an admissions official at Brandeis University, a private college in Waltham with a long social justice streak, advocating behind closed doors for underrepresented students of color. After all, she had been hired in the early 2000s specifically to recruit them.

Some 45 years ago, I was a young Asian American college student in California, who worked with Chicano/Latino and Black students statewide to protest the first major attack on minority admissions.

On October 31, the Supreme Court will hear two cases that will determine the future of affirmative action.