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As universities have released demographic information about their new freshman classes -- the first cohort affected by last year's Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action -- advocates for colorblindness are [...]

Byline: Julian Mark, Ian Duncan A federal judge in Kentucky has partially blocked a U.S. Transportation Department program that metes out contracts to minority-owned businesses and suggested he may eventually [...]

Along with Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was one of two schools defending affirmative action in Supreme Court cases last year. Fourteen months after the [...]

Byline: Julian Mark, Peter Whoriskey On his first day in office, President Biden ordered federal agencies to adopt a broad 'racial equity agenda,' one that would increase investment in communities [...]

Byline: Julian Mark, Susan Svrluga When the Supreme Court overturned race-conscious college admissions last June, Adrienne Oddi and other administrators at Queens University paused their Board of Trustees meeting to [...]

Byline: Taylor Telford Republican legislators have introduced a bill that would end all federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and end funding for government agencies, contractors, schools and other organizations [...]

The future of admissions at selective colleges and high schools has suddenly become clearer. After the Supreme Court banned race-based affirmative action last year, many people in higher education worried [...]

The Supreme Court's ruling intended to remove the consideration of race during the admissions process. So students used their essays to highlight their racial background. Astrid Delgado first wrote her [...]

Byline: Nick Anderson Many big-name colleges will continue to boost applications from children of their alumni, despite intense scrutiny of so-called 'legacy' preferences from government officials and others after a [...]

Byline: Nick Anderson The Biden administration urged colleges Thursday to give 'meaningful consideration' to adversity that applicants have faced - including financial hardship and personal experiences of racial discrimination - [...]

Byline: Nick Anderson The Supreme Court's rejection of race-based affirmative action in college admissions has raised pressure on prominent colleges and universities to abandon another preference suddenly much harder to [...]

No matter their views of race-conscious admissions, students were wary of the college application process -- and some thought little would change. Kawsar Yasin, a Harvard sophomore of Uyghur descent, [...]

Do extracurriculars help? How about being a guy? Getting into selective schools this year will look different. Here are a few answers to questions from readers. With the Supreme Court [...]

Responses to queries about financial aid, 529 plans, need-blind schools and more. The Supreme Court decisions that struck down affirmative action programs and President Biden's student debt cancellation plan will [...]

RACE-BASED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION programs were never expected to last forever. In the early 1960s, Whitney Young of the Urban League called for ''a decade of discrimination in favor of Negro [...]

I'LL NEVER FORGET how in 2013 the entire University of Delaware admissions office, including me, packed into a conference room, watching the news and waiting for a U.S. Supreme Court [...]

Bret Stephens: Gail, happy almost Independence Day. In the spirit of the holiday: Is America toast? Gail Collins: Well, gee, Bret, happy almost Independence Day back. Hope you're not planning [...]

After the Supreme Court banned race-conscious affirmative action, activists filed a complaint, saying legacy admissions helped students who are overwhelmingly rich and white. It's been called affirmative action for the [...]

In striking down affirmative action in higher education on Thursday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority said it had to do so because the Constitution forbids any form of racial distinction. [...]

The end of race-conscious admissions could have wide-ranging effects. Here's what might happen. The Supreme Court's decision to end race-conscious admissions will very likely change higher education in complicated ways. [...]

''I think this will alter my entire application process,'' one student said. The Supreme Court left open the possibility that colleges could consider discussions of race in personal essays. The [...]

In earlier decisions, the court had endorsed taking account of race as one factor among many to promote educational diversity. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected affirmative action at colleges [...]

Even as Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared to agree over the policy's aim, they harshly criticized each other's conclusions on what to do. In an extraordinary exchange [...]

President Biden said he continued to believe in the need for diversity in higher education, and suggested it might be achieved in other ways. President Biden declared on Thursday that [...]

Byline: Janice Kai Chen and Daniel Wolfe The Supreme Court has ruled to restrict affirmative action and eliminate race-conscious admissions in higher education, overturning more than four decades of court [...]

Byline: Philip Bump It is in the nature of college admissions that some people are accepted and some not. There aren't a lot of zero-sum determinations in our society, but [...]

Byline: Nick Anderson and Susan Svrluga The new Supreme Court ruling rejecting how prominent colleges use race in admissions will jolt recruiting and enrollment practices around the country. College and [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that relied in part on racial considerations, saying they violate [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes The Supreme Court on Thursday held that admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that relied in part on racial considerations violate the Constitution's [...]