Affirmative

The evidence is undisputable that American higher education is in trouble. Enrollments are down. Costs of educating students are much higher than in other industrialized democracies. Employers frequently complain that their…

This June, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, ruling it invalid under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. For Justice Clarence Thomas, the ruling fulfilled his decades-old legal vision of…

U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH) is urging Ivy League universities and two Ohio colleges to preserve admission records following the U.S. Supreme Court‘s ruling overturning affirmative action. On June 29th the U.S. Supreme Court decided in…

by Eric Lendrum     Following a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court effectively ending the practice of race-based preferences in college admissions, Harvard University is facing new civil rights challenges over its practice of…

Just when I begin to think that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has escaped the gravitational pull of his party, he crashes back to earth with a thud. Grounding Kennedy this time was affirmative action. Last Thursday, he weighed in…

Many of those who are applauding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday that struck down affirmative action are also warning that universities that have been steeped for decades in “equity” and “diversity” ideology are not likely…

The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed explicit racism in college admissions on Thursday. This naturally outraged those so obsessed with outlawing explicit racism in college admissions that they instituted it. The dissent…

by Mary Lou Masters Several 2024 Republican presidential candidates praised the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday for striking down affirmative action in college admissions via two cases against Harvard and the University of North Carolina.…

Leftist university administrators are desperately awaiting the Supreme Court’s decisions in the cases Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University…

by Richard Samuelson   The betting odds are that the Supreme Court will soon rule against affirmative action. It is worth asking how we got here, and what we should do about it. Why is affirmative action in jeopardy? The main reason,…