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The court’s conservative supermajority may be skeptical of admissions programs at Harvard and U.N.C. that take account of race to foster educational diversity.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday about admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina — and the meaning of a civil rights landmark.

Race-neutral admissions policies can help further a more multifaceted diversity on America’s college campuses.

An admissions system that made sense as reparations has survived as something much more self-serving.

Why should some students have advantages over others simply because of the color of their skin?

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in two key affirmative action cases. Here’s what the justices have said or written about race-conscious policies.

To make affirmative action consistent with true meritocracy, universities should use machine-learning algorithms for admissions decisions.

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Affirmative action still has a vital role to play addressing the history of discrimination.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas overcame humble beginnings and racial discrimination before earning elite educations, but they bring very different views about race-conscious college admissions to the Supreme Court as it weighs affirmative action challenges.

The system is not about lining people up from best to worst and taking the top ones. It’s more like a lottery, says the sociologist Natasha Warikoo.

UNC-Chapel Hill and Harvard University next week will defend to the U.S. Supreme Court their race-conscious undergraduate admissions processes in cases that could overturn decades of precedent.

‘The current generation expects more’

The literary genre of “dark academia” may now be less dark than actual academia.

Fewer than a quarter of public four-year institutions, and only 40 percent of community colleges, meet a college access group’s definition of affordability.

The Chronicle asked legal and higher-education experts to share one key thing they will be watching for during Monday’s arguments. This is what they said.