Many use different formulas to calculate racial makeup, and it’s not obvious there’s a “right” way. By Aatish Bhatia Aatish Bhatia and Upshot colleagues have contacted over 90 selective colleges to ...

Enrollment data for the first round of college students affected by the outlawing of affirmative action has been slowly disseminating over the past few weeks. As academia reckons with the impact of ...

It has been over two years since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions, a decision that thrust some of the country's most elite colleges and universities into the ...

Sept 19 (Reuters) - The percentage of students of color in Harvard Law School’s new class fell to 43% from 51% in 2023, according to new data the school posted to its website, opens new tab. The new ...

A year after a Supreme Court ruling ended race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions, Black first-year student enrollment dropped sharply at many top colleges across the nation, while ...

Jan 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court’s June ban on affirmative action in college admissions so far has not led to a decline in minority law school applicants, as some legal academics feared. The ...

Students of color appear undeterred from applying to prominent colleges despite last year’s Supreme Court ruling that bars institutions from using race as a factor in admissions, an analysis of ...

A veteran community activist, he believed self-reliance — rather than affirmative action or government help — was the way to fight racism, poverty and crime. By Robert D. McFadden A cloud of doubt ...

The class of 2028 is the first group of students admitted to Columbia following the overturning of race-conscious admissions in 2023, marking a significant shift in the University’s admissions ...

Across Ghana, conversations about affirmative action are gaining momentum in parliament, universities, corporate boardrooms, and civil society organizations .

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