Stevie Ray Dallimore, an actor and teacher, had been running the theater program for a private boys’ school in Chattanooga for a decade, but he never...
By Richard Arum and Mitchell L. Stevens Graphics by Quoctrung Bui Mr. Arum is a professor of sociology and education at the University of...
It’s been called affirmative action for the rich: Harvard’s special admissions treatment for students whose parents are alumni, or whose relatives donated money. And in a...
Hace varios años, cuando estudiaba en la universidad, gané algún dinero durante los veranos ayudando a jóvenes asiáticoestadounidenses a parecer menos asiáticos. Era un tutor autónomo...
A Push for Punishment Two weeks after Mr. Schmidt’s first tweets in November about the course, John W. Boyer, then dean of the college, sent an...
For the head of admissions at a medical school, Dr. Mark Henderson is pretty blunt when sizing up the profession. “Mostly rich kids get to go...
For the Whiteheads, an African American family living in the city of Baltimore, race is discussed at the dinner table. In the car on the way...
Lawyers for the Biden administration told the Supreme Court that it could cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt because Congress had given it...
The Supreme Court’s decision to end race-conscious admissions will very likely change higher education in complicated ways. Some of them will be obvious, including immediate changes...
The Supreme Court ended its term this week in familiar fashion, issuing blockbuster conservative decisions on affirmative action, gay rights and student loans that divided along...
