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Scholars Critique White House Higher Ed Policies, 2020 Candidates’ Proposals

by LaMont Jones | July 15, 2019 Considering unease on many campuses regarding the Trump administration’s higher education pol Read more

Redefining Merit

by Andrew Martinez | April 25, 2019
Following the college admissions scandal, countless thought pieces have addressed inequity in c [...] Read more

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center to No Longer Use Race as Factor in Medical School Admissions

by Monica Levitan | April 9, 2019
Officials from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center have announced the center will [...] Read more

The Myth of Meritocracy

by Khalilah L. Brown-Dean | March 13, 2019
To my high school guidance counselor, I wasn’t college material. I remember flipping through [...] Read more

UNC Admissions Lawsuit Likely Headed to Supreme Court

by LaMont Jones | January 22, 2019
The federal lawsuit challenging race-conscious admissions practices at the University of North [...] Read more

A Lottery for Harvard and Other Elite Schools?

by Emil Guillermo | January 11, 2019
As we wait for the judge’s decision, one interesting essay has been published in Quartz by Na [...] Read more

The Biggest Diversity Case in 2018 Could be the Biggest of 2019

by Emil Guillermo | December 28, 2018
The Harvard case, in which Asian Americans sued Harvard for discrimination, could determine acc [...] Read more

2018 Higher Education Highlights

by Walter Hudson | December 20, 2018
Like the year before, 2018 has proven to be an important year for issues relating to diversity, [...] Read more

The Removal of ‘Individual 1’?

by Emil Guillermo | December 10, 2018
The political climate is changing. After Friday, temperatures are rising higher and the leading [...] Read more

At the Harvard Affirmative Action Trial, We’re About to Hear From the Less Than Perfect — Who Got In

by Emil Guillermo | October 27, 2018
With the news of pipe bombs and hot rhetoric, the trial in Boston over Harvard’s use of affir [...] Read more

The Perfect Victim and the Perfect Judge —The New Challenge to Affirmative Action

by Emil Guillermo | October 15, 2018
If it feels like we’ve been here before, we have. The use of race in college admissions [...] Read more

In Defense of Affirmative Action

by Amanda Main | October 11, 2018
The most recent battle in the war against affirmative action is being brought by Students for F [...] Read more

Scholars Believe Supreme Court Likely to End Affirmative Action with Kavanaugh

by Monica Levitan and LaMont Jones | September 13, 2018
Scholars from coast to coast expect the Senate Judiciary Committee to confirm Supreme Court nom [...] Read more

Diversity at Stake in Kavanaugh Hearings

by Emil Guillermo | September 5, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination is about institutionalizing the trend at the highest court to re [...] Read more

DOJ Sides with Asian-Americans in Bias Suit Against Harvard

by LaMont Jones | August 31, 2018
The U.S. Department of Justice has indicated its strongest support to date for the plaintiffs i [...] Read more

Diversity in Graduate Education: Looking at — and Beyond — Admissions

Does Testing Serve a Purpose in Holistic Application Review?

Supporting Noncognitive Factors: Connecting Students with Resources, from Theory to Practice