When the Supreme Court struck down the University of North Carolina’s affirmative-action program in June, the trustees of its flagship Chapel Hill campus were quick to respond.
Anti-Asian racism has stained this country, and anti-Asian discrimination at elite universities has been real and ugly. Anyone who doubts this should look at the graphs that show how Harvard...
On June 22, the Chronicle of Higher Education announced that Money magazine would start rating instead of ranking colleges for the first time in over 30 years. Why is this newsworthy?
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that sacred value in its 6-2 decision for the plaintiffs in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and a 6-3 decision for...
The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its decision on a pair of cases involving race-based admissions this month, but some college and university presidents are not waiting to signal how they plan...
ACTA's Emily Koons Jae and Bryan Paul recently sat down with Jenna Robinson, president of the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, a nonprofit institute dedicated to improving higher education in North Carolina and the...
Higher Ed Now kicks off 2023 with a conversation between Steve McGuire, ACTA’s Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom, and Kenny Xu, president of the raceblind advocacy group Color Us United, an organization that investigates and takes...
Washington, DC—On Monday, January 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear […]
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