Timeline of Columbia and Barnard affirmative action key precedents 1928: Zora Neale Hurston is the first Black student to graduate from Barnard. 1954: Brown v. Board of Education This landmark U.S.

How the racial makeup of colleges changed after the affirmative action ruling Universities are disclosing the racial makeup of the first class of students admitted after the Supreme Court ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions in 2023, most people expected a major drop in the enrollment of Black and Latino students at elite schools.

When colleges began announcing the makeup of their incoming freshman classes last year—the first admissions cycle since the Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action—there seemed to have been ...

There was a slight decline in the numbers of Black students in Harvard University's freshman class, which follows a Supreme Court ruling which struck down affirmative action in higher education ...