Affirmative Action

Associated Press

News about Affirmative Action, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jan. 21, 2015

Hiring of Todd Bowles as new head coach of New York Jets is latest achievement of rule requiring teams to interview at least one minority candidate when looking to fill top coaching spot; there are currently six NFL head coaches who have minority backgrounds, out of 32 teams, and some analysts worry there is still wide disparity between ratio of black players to black coaches. MORE

Nov. 18, 2014

Harvard University and University of North Carolina are being sued by legal advocacy group Project on Fair Representation, which alleges that affirmative action policies are limiting admissions of white and Asian-American students and should be banned at colleges. MORE

Jul. 17, 2014

Editorialsupports federal appeals court decision upholding affirmative action admissions at University of Texas in face of lawsuit brought by white student Abigail Fisher after she was denied admission; holds that university has made strong effort to reach workable solution to diversity effort, and has largely succeeded in doing so. MORE

Jul. 16, 2014

Three-judge panel of United States Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit upholds University of Texas at Austin’s consideration of race as one of many factors in admissions; case was brought by Abigail Fisher, white student who was not in the top 10 percent of her high school class and was denied admission to the university for the fall of 2008. MORE

Jun. 17, 2014

The Upshot column asserts that affirmative action as most people know it is probably doomed;