On many campuses, officials hoped the focus on economic diversity would preserve racial diversity — Black, Hispanic and ...

Colleges across the country will be forced to stop considering race in admissions under Thursday's Supreme Court ruling, ending affirmative action policies that date back decades. Schools that have ...

Nearly three months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to overturn affirmative action, universities must now change how they factor a student’s race into the admissions process. The 6-3 decision was ...

"I do think the makeup of the schools is going to change drastically," he said. The ruling is considered a massive blow to decades-old efforts to boost enrollment of minorities at American ...

The Supreme Court last week announced it would hear two cases challenging affirmative action in college admissions, a move that could signal the impending end of race being used as a consideration for ...

This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Michel Martin. My thanks to my colleague Celeste Headlee for sitting in for a few days while I was away last week. Later on today, we'll talk about that ...

Ivy League schools and elite medical and law schools have been so focused on raising black enrollment because it is the only way to close the black-white wealth gap. On average, white families have ...

Musk, who was born in South Africa, accused his home country of having “openly racist ownership laws” by requiring at least 30% local ownership by Black or other races that were denied opportunities ...

Prior to the Supreme Court’s recent bombshell decision on affirmative action, some predicted that a ruling to ban the practice would “take down” the diversity industry or deliver a “concussive” blow ...

In a historic decision, the United States Supreme Court ended race-conscious admissions programs in higher education last month. The court declared that race cannot be a factor in admissions, ...