Three decades after he graduated, Douglas Hicks returns as its 19th president

Two “race-neutral alternatives” are frequently proposed: a search for socioeconomic diversity, which is often a proxy for racial and ethnic diversity, and a plan to admit the top candidates from every high school, while trying to expand recruitment.

The court’s conservative majority was wary of plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that take account of race to foster educational diversity.

A look at the lawyers who are arguing in case.

John F. Kennedy was the first president to link the term specifically with a policy meant to advance racial equality

How ‘stereotype promise’ shapes Asian Americans’ educations.

Within academia, all understand it as a way to favor some races at the expense of others.

Over 100 students gather outside the Supreme Court to support race-conscious college admissions policies, but others say it leads inequality in university admissions.

A case for why race-based affirmative action still matters for colleges and universities at a time when the Supreme Court could end it.

Monday’s Supreme Court oral arguments will probably focus on admissions to elite schools. But most low-income students of color come up against a different barrier.

If they do what it sounded like they will do, it will end the ability of colleges and universities, public and private, to consider race as one factor in admissions.

A ruling in the case is expected from the conservative-leaning court next year. It could overturn decades of precedent on affirmative action in higher education.

A lengthy set of rule changes will reduce the total cost for many federal student loan borrowers and ease rules for debt elimination.

Students missed a lot of high school instruction. Now many are behind, especially in math, and getting that degree could be harder.

Chegg, a homework help app, exposed the data of 40 million users, including details about some students’ sexual orientation and religion, regulators said in a legal complaint.

A new report shows that Betsy DeVos’s reforms improved protections for college students, but Biden is rolling them back.

Most of the Supreme Court appears impatient for its end. But the justices appointed by Democrats made the case for the practice.

The conservative justices seemed skeptical of the colleges’ longstanding practice. The more liberal minority wondered if a race-neutral strategy would exacerbate the very problem it was claiming to fix.

Hundreds show support for affirmative action programs as Supreme Court weighs their fate.