What's at stake as Supreme Court revisits affirmative action in college admissions
(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Supreme Court will once again revisit the legality of affirmative action in higher education, after last upholding the decades-old precedent in 2016. On Monday, the high court said it would take up a pair of cases that challenge the use of race as a factor in undergraduate admissions at Harvard University, the nation's oldest private college, and the University of North Carolina, the nation's oldest public state university. That the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the cases together is seen by some experts as an indication that the conservative-leaning body ...