The Latest Breaking News from Students for Fair Admissions

I finished editing the entirety of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. You can download it here: https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Students-for-Fair-Admission.pdf. It took me about ten hours to edit the entire 237-page decision. (I would have finished sooner, but I was stuck in United Airlines purgatory for much of the day.) The edited…

In an anticipated but nonetheless stunning decision expected to have widespread implications on college campuses and workplaces across the country, the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29, 2023, outlawed affirmative action programs that were designed to correct centuries of racist disenfranchisement in higher education.

In a 6 -3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled higher education institutions may not consider race as a factor in admissions

Affirmative action becomes harder to defend when it entails discrimination against a variety of racial and ethnic minority groups.

Of all the civil rights policies enacted by U.S President Lyndon Johnson, affirmative action is arguably one of the most enduring – and most challenged.

Twitter owner is apparently unhappy about the decline of the importance of standarised test scores in the higher education admissions process

The United States Supreme Court is deciding a pair of cases that could end affirmative action programs that consider race in college admissions.

Leonard Leo, the man behind the right-wing takeover of the courts, is funding groups with cases before the court

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments from Harvard and the University of North Carolina about using race and ethnicity in admissions policies. At stake is the fate of affirmative action and the positive effects that race-conscious policies have had on higher education and the workplace for more than 50 years.