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2019 Year in Review

by Sara Weissman | December 30, 2019 In 2019, issues related to diversity in higher education took the national stage, from affirmat Read more

Harvard Affirmative Action Decision Exposes Asian American Divide

by Emil Guillermo | October 5, 2019
The Harvard decision last week makes me cheer. And cry. It solves nothing. It only furthers an [...] Read more

Judge Sides With Harvard on Affirmative Action Case

by Jamal Watson | October 1, 2019
A federal court judge ruled on Tuesday to uphold Harvard University’s race-conscious admissio [...] Read more

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

| 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

| 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

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