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How universities will get around whatever the Supreme Court decides in the affirmative action cases.

The U.S. military learned a valuable lesson about race during the Vietnam War: Diversity does not happen without affirmative action.

A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the use of affirmative action in higher education

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases filed against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that could profoundly alter the future of higher education in America. Petitioners will ask the court to overturn decades of precedent that have allowed…

In Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), Justice O'Connor wrote, "We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary." I never took this sentence--or really anything Justice O'Connor wrote--very seriously. And even if she was serious about that point, no one who joined her…

Teams of two HS students will write a brief and present oral arguments on Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina

The case falls short on several grounds.

Teams of two HS students will write a brief and present oral arguments on Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina

In a 2007 Supreme Court decision involving a school district in Seattle, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”