Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
A new survey of college admissions counselors released by Inside Higher Ed confirms many seek out students of means who do not require financial aid assistance.
The University of Texas is once again embroiled in a possible Supreme Court case involving affirmative action in their admissions process. As the Austin American-Statesman reported, lawyers have filed a petition on behalf of a student who’d applied to the school, asking for the Supreme Court to review the UT’s More…
A federal appeals court has upheld a race-based admission process employed by the University of Texas at Austin, striking down a request for a rehearing by two white students who were denied admission to UT in 2008. The students argued the university’s admissions policy violated their equal protection rights guaranteed More…
Barack Obama might not ever say that we live in a post-racial society, but his election was heralded by many as the beginning of an American era not bedeviled by historical racial disparities. When asked last year about race-based affirmative action programs, Obama suggested that class might be More…
The conservative commentator, who regularly gets away with statements that would get less popular pundits banned from the airwaves, doesn’t pull punches in his column on the Nobel Peace Prize:
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s ranking member, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) just grilled Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on her ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano, the controversial case in which Sotomayor, as part of a three-judge panel, denied the firefighters’ claims that they had a right to promotions because they scored More…
Somehow, the 5-4 ruling from the Supreme Court earlier today in Ricci v. DeStefano has been turned into a 9-0 ruling against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, according to some conservative critics.
“NOT EVEN ONE JUSTICE APPROVED SOTOMAYER IN RICCI CASE,” blares the headline of a statement More…
The Congressional Research Service has issued a report analyzing the opinions of Judge Sonia Sotomayor and concluded, just as previous studies of her opinions have, that she is anything but a judicial activist.
Notwithstanding her much-decried “wise Latina woman” claim, it turns out Sotomayor is no liberal More…
Politico asks whether Frank Ricci, the firefighter in the affirmative action case that’s dogged Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, can become an outspoken voice against her nomination. The answer: not really, but conservatives will try to make it happen anyway.
Ricci’s attorney Karen Torre … appeared
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