college admissions

The Supreme Court considers new arguments challenging admissions practices that colleges use to select a diverse student body.

To remain exclusively white after Brown v. Board of education, universities created scholarships to send qualified Black students to out-of-state HBCUs instead.

Lessons on race-neutral admissions from California.

And historians aren't exactly helping in the Harvard case currently before the Supreme Court.

Colorblindness has a long history in college admissions, the Black intellectual tradition, and today’s assault on affirmative action and race-conscious policies.

The Supreme Court has watered down the policy’s core justification: justice.

Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.

Discussions of admissions to élite colleges are built around the idea that somewhere around the next bend is the right way to do it.

Twenty years ago, Sandra Day O'Connor's deleted draft opinion rejected favoring white applicants over Asian Americans. Why did Clarence Thomas adopt it?

The conservative backlash to the civil-rights era began immediately — and now it’s nearly complete.

The argument made recently by Kim Forde-Mazrui may not be in good faith, but it does raise important questions about the meaning of the Constitution.

High-stakes testing has struggled with overt and implicit biases. Should it still have a place in modern education?

When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the future of affirmative action, I knew I had to be there.

The personal essay is the purest expression of the lie that individual subjectivity exists prior to the social formations that gave rise to it.

How new student loan programs turned students into consumers — and ignited a competition among universities that left them drowning in debt.

In 1970 Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.

In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.

Democracy requires something more than a handful of super-rich universities.

From grade school to college, students of color have suffered from the effects of biased testing.

A new study finds that federal drug policy didn’t just send more black men to jail—it also locked them out of higher education.