David Cohen, M.S., Dave Sharrer, M.S. In June 2023, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) v. President & Fellows of Harvard College (Harvard) and SFFA ...

A long-simmering debate over legacy admissions in elite universities and colleges heated up after the U.S. Supreme Court in a June 29 ruling struck down affirmative action in college admissions.

Amid a flurry of executive orders starting his second administration, President Donald Trump issued an order entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order” ...

New guidance from the Biden administration on Monday urges colleges to use a range of strategies to promote racial diversity on campus after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in ...

In September of 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new state law banning legacy admissions in higher education. This policy prevents private colleges from considering students’ familial ...

Faculty members voted to approve a proposal to remove references to affirmative action and other suggestions of race-based preferential treatment from the University’s Non-Discrimination Statement and ...

Critiques of Claudine Gay noted her thin publication record that enabled her to gain tenure at Stanford and then Harvard. They only lightly touch on her ability to gain admittance to Harvard’s ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Supreme Court’s June ruling striking down affirmative action by socially defined race in college and university admissions is a step backward for equal opportunity to access education. While ...

My article Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action has finally been published by the Florida Law Review. In these days of federal attacks on private DEI, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his new book "The Affirmative Action Myth," Jason Riley, a Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute scholar, ...

Cato Institute immigration policy expert Alex Nowrasteh explains the close parallels between a policy most conservatives hate, and one most them reflexively support. People are seen both protesting ...