Affirmative action Coverage

UNC students express interest in diverse campus following affirmative action ruling

Data from UNC admissions shows about three out of every five students in this incoming class are white. That compares to nearly 90 percent of the student body being white in 1980.

DAVID RICE: UNC students 'deserve to believe they belong'

Monday, Aug. 7, 2023 -- If ever there was a contrast between those who want students at the University of North Carolina to represent all of North Carolina and those who don't, it was on full display recently with UNC-Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees.

MARK MERRITT: What we learn is not limited to the classroom

Monday, Aug. 7, 2023 -- The interactions with and exposure to other students who come from different places, have different economic circumstances, have different skin colors or religions or have different political viewpoints are a big part of what makes a university great.

DRAUGHON DRAWS: Supreme Court gives UNC an 'ivory' Bell Tower

Wednesday, July 5, 2023 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.

Fact check: DeSantis labels Trump as affirmative action 'advocate'

The same day the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, the presidential campaign of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pounced on fellow Republican candidate and former President Donald Trump to paint him as supporting affirmative action -- a stance unpopular with many in the GOP.

Jeff Cercone and Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact reporters

Harvard's Admissions Is Challenged for Favoring Children of Alumni

It's been called affirmative action for the rich: Harvard University's special admissions treatment for students whose parents are alumni, or whose relatives donated money. And in a complaint filed Monday, a legal activist group demanded that the federal government put an end to it, arguing that fairness was even more imperative after the Supreme Court last week severely limited race-conscious admissions.

Stephanie Saul, New York Times

KETANJI BROWN JACKSON: Court 'turns back the clock' launching 'dismally misinformed sociological experiment '

Friday, June 30, 2023 -- Our country has never been colorblind. Given the lengthy history of state-sponsored race-based preferences in America, to say that anyone is now victimized if a college considers whether that legacy of discrimination has unequally advantaged its applicants fails to acknowledge the well-documented "intergenerational transmission of inequality" that still plagues our citizenry.

Local experts react to Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action

Members of on the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 6-3 to end affirmative action, a decades-long practice.

Aaron Thomas, WRAL reporter

In Depth with Dan: How did we get here? US Supreme Court rules against affirmative action in college admissions

What does the U.S. Supreme Court's decision mean moving forward now that the high court has ruled that affirmative action in college admissions is unconstitutional?

UNC, Duke, NC State all saw their student bodies diversify under affirmative action, data shows

The WRAL Data Trackers gathered student enrollment stats for those three universities starting in 1980.

Ali Ingersoll, WRAL Investigative Data Journalist

US Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled colleges and universities can no longer consider race as a factor in admissions.

Affirmative action impacts on universities in the Triangle

Under affirmative action, Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and N.C. State all saw their campuses diversifying, data shows.

NC reaction to US Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said this is not the decision the school hoped for. UNC System President Peter Hans said they are "closely reviewing today's decision."

2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision on UNC admissions

Special Report: Supreme Court rules on affirmative action

Nearly every student at North Carolina's flagship university is white or Asian, despite decades of affirmative action policies. But a U.S. Supreme Court case says there are still too many Black and Hispanic students being admitted, at the expense of white and Asian students with higher test scores.

U.S. Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action nationwide in lawsuit involving UNC-Chapel Hill

UNC-Chapel Hill stood accused by a conservative legal activist of improperly passing over white and Asian students in an effort to increase diversity on campus. The Supreme Court has now ruled on the case.

Will Doran, WRAL state government reporter

Impending affirmative action decision brings Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III to Chapel Hill

UNC-Chapel Hill is at the center of one of the cases in front of the Supreme Court. Advocates of affirmative action say race is just one factor being considered in admissions, but opponents say it shouldn't even be part of the discussion.

Affirmative action: UNC lawsuit could change college admissions nationwide. What you need to know.

Nearly every student at North Carolina's flagship university is white or Asian, despite decades of affirmative action policies. But a U.S. Supreme Court case says there are still too many Black and Hispanic students being admitted, at the expense of white and Asian students with higher test scores.

Will Doran, WRAL state government reporter

DRAUGHON DRAWS: 'Clueless.' The sequel?

Friday, Nov. 4, 2022 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.

Editorial: Supreme Court needs to follow the law, uphold UNC affirmative action in admissions

Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022 -- Diversity and inclusion are critical to a well-rounded education that prepares students to effectively engage in a society that treats people with dignity and respect. It is fundamental to our democracy and the Supreme Court should not divert from that mission.

Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of Affirmative Action Programs

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday appeared ready to rule that the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unlawful, based on questioning over five hours of vigorous and sometimes testy arguments, a move that would overrule decades of precedents.

Adam Liptak, New York Times

Protesters gather outside US Supreme Court

Protesters in support of university diversity gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of oral arguments concerning the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and affirmative action.

UNC, Harvard set to defend use of race in admissions before US Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments on Monday in a case that challenges the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's policy of considering race in admissions.

WRAL Staff

Cooper, advocacy group, corporations file briefs in support of UNC's admissions policies in US Supreme Court case

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments this year in a case that challenges UNC-Chapel Hill's policy of considering race in admissions.

Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer

Biden promises Supreme Court nominee by end of February

As the Supreme Court tackles again the issue of affirmative action, President Biden has promised to name a Black woman to the court.