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The Justice Department is invoking a landmark civil rights law as it walks back a lawsuit seeking to dismantle a state's affirmative action hiring policy.
Students walk through a gate at Harvard University, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass.
The Trend: Following the Supreme Court decision banning the consideration of race in college admissions, my organization, Class Action, compared newly released federal data on over 3,000 colleges and .
On August 21, 2026, the U.
Of the almost four thousand degree-granting colleges in the United States, only a very small portion are highly selective.
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 .
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The documents follow up on one of President Donald Trump’s first orders that sought to alter the federal government’s antidiscrimination enforcement work.
Phillip Levine is a professor at Wellesley College and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Earlier this month, Queensland became the latest state to pass affirmative consent laws.