The final of three debates on challenges facing North Carolina’s education system is slated for Wednesday evening, November 1, in Benson at the W. J. Barefoot Auditorium. This time experts will focus on education funding in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2024 @ 2:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The US Supreme Court's affirmative action decision made an exception for military service academies, due to the military’s “potentially distinct interests that military academies may present."
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 8:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senator Elizabeth Warren forcefully denounced the Supreme Court decision to ban affirmative action, explaining that it's the only reason a young Native American girl like herself was able to go to Rutgers.
Published: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 7:49 am
By: Babylon Bee
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IRVINE, CA — Jubilant revelry broke out yesterday following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against colleges using Affirmative Action policies in their admissions, with Asian American families celebrating by cutting loose with a five-minute study break.
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2023 @ 2:58 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Admissions faculty at Harvard was devastated today upon hearing the news that they could no longer use racial discrimination to turn their school into a diverse rainbow of beautiful mediocrity.
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2023 @ 10:01 am
By: Babylon Bee
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In an extremely awkward moment, six Supreme Court justices ruled that affirmative action is unconstitutional, completely forgetting that affirmative action hire Ketanji Brown Jackson was sitting right there next to them.
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2023 @ 3:53 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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This analysis by Jim Copland and Rafael Mangual is well worth reading in full. Here’s an excerpt:
Published: Sunday, August 13th, 2023 @ 11:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The New York Times offered a possible “solution” on Thursday that would allow colleges to circumvent the Supreme Court’s recent ruling regarding Affirmative Action in the admissions process.
Published: Saturday, July 22nd, 2023 @ 9:25 am
By: Daily Wire
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Civil rights activists angered by the Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions are suing Harvard over legacy admissions, arguing the practice gives mostly white children of wealthy alumni an advantage over minorities.
Published: Sunday, July 16th, 2023 @ 6:53 am
By: Daily Wire
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Former Vice President Mike Pence declared on Sunday that the days of America needing affirmative action are “over” following the Supreme Court’s ruling last week that two colleges that were using race as a determining factor in the admissions process acted illegally.
Published: Saturday, July 15th, 2023 @ 8:16 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Supreme Court is in the midst of hearing two cases which could enable them to roll back affirmative action colleges and universities use for admissions.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 5:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Most people, including most North Carolinians, continue to believe affirmative action is an important and effective way to reduce the disadvantages some of our fellow citizens face in pursuing their dreams.
Published: Saturday, December 5th, 2020 @ 7:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Gallup Organization and Inside Higher Ed co-hosted a conference in Washington on September 15
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2016 @ 9:01 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Like all public universities, the University of Texas has a governing body that is supposed to oversee its management-the Board of Regents
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 2:42 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Vijay-who used his authentic middle name, JoJo, and the description "star point guard for my family's beloved Celtics" on his applications-is the son of Indian immigrants, his mother a highly regarded Boston ob-gyn and his father an architect
Published: Saturday, November 19th, 2016 @ 1:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Hamilton College has for years had an open curriculum, allowing students the freedom to shape their education as they think best. Whether that's a good idea is debatable, but the college is about to move in the opposite direction by instituting a "diversity requirement" for all students
Published: Tuesday, July 26th, 2016 @ 12:03 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When the Supreme Court agreed to hear Abigail Fisher's challenge to the University of Texas's admissions program a second time, it seemed that the writing was on the wall
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2016 @ 2:09 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Affirmative action is before the Supreme Court again this week, as it rehears arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 3:49 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The Supreme Court held, in the 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger, that it is permissible for universities to give some students preference in admission on the basis of their race. That decision was a serious mistake and it is time to correct it.
Published: Friday, September 18th, 2015 @ 3:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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America's golfing 'Neville Chamberlain' of foreign policy, remains cool, aloof and may help the World save itself from the 'scientifically proved' mild discomfort resulting from Climate Change.
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 9:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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America's first Affirmative Action president, America's first truly bona fide Socialist president, and if Barack Hussein can just hold his course on dealing with the threat of Islamic Terrorists, he could just become America's first Idiot president, which will surely transform this nation.
Published: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 @ 12:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The president presiding over America's most opaque administration in modern times, now wishes to reinstate transparency, providing that it only puts American personnel abroad at risk, not him or his administration here at home.
Published: Saturday, December 20th, 2014 @ 2:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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