Universities can enhance diversity by giving an admissions break to disadvantaged students of all races. It's legal and it's good politics.

The University of California is being sued by Asian-American achievers who charge racial discrimination in admissions.

Donald Trump's executive order ending racial preferences will have far-reaching effects.

Young Americans are optimistic about Trump's presidency and moving rightward in their politics.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the daughter of two university professors, was admitted to Hastings law school via a program for applicants...

"Holistic" admissions to selective colleges is a "black box," writes Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute. Nobody knows...

Harvard has added an introductory math course for students who are weak on basic algebra.

MIT ended racial preferences and admitted more Asians, slightly fewer whites and significantly fewer Hispanics and blacks.

Minority students are only slightly less likely to write about their racial or ethnic identity in college admissions essays, according to...

UCLA has become a"failed medical school" because it "cut corners" to achieve racial diversity, a former admissions staffer says. Failure...

Writing about race is more popular than ever for black, Hispanic and indigenous college applicants, writes Bernard Mokam in the New York...

College admissions are "murky," and getting murkier, writes Peter Arcidiacono, a Duke economics professor, on Persuasion. "Test-optional"...

"You can't lift up people based on identity," Shelby Steele, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, says in a conversation...

Claudine Gay has resigned as president of Harvard University after new charges of plagiarism. "Confronting hate and . . . upholding...

"White people are oppressors," say 79 percent of young Americans 18 to 24 years old in a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll. "Nonwhite...

"Safe to say Harvard is out," Demar Goodman, who's black, told a friend when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected race-based college...

Stanley Zhong earned nearly perfect grades (3.97 unweighted, 4.42 weighted) and SAT scores (1590 out of 1600). He founded his own...

Elite colleges have "rolled out new application questions this fall to provide students with opportunities to discuss their racial...

A middle school in a working-class, mostly Hispanic neighborhood in San Jose started teaching algebra after a wave of Vietnamese refugee...

Asked by his first-choice college about a challenge he'd overcome, "Frank" wrote about struggling with algebra in ninth grade. He'd...