EEOC Lawyer Tells Companies How to Refresh Affirmative Action Plans for Trump Era

After nearly a year under the new Trump administration, you wouldn’t be crazy to think US companies no longer have to worry about having affirmative actions plans or taking a hardline against ...
JD Supra

What U.S. Employers Need to Know about Upcoming DEI Executive Orders

On the first day of President Trump’s second administration, he signed the Ending Racial and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing Executive Order. This order provides direction to ...
JD Supra

President Trump Rescinds Affirmative Action for Federal Contractors and Requires Enforcement Plan to End Unlawful DEI at Private Companies

On January 21, 2025, President Trump signed a sweeping executive order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order”), rescinding affirmative action and ...
City Journal

Will Universities Embrace Class-Based Preferences?

Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges, by Richard Kahlenberg (PublicAffairs, 384 pp., $26.99) Notably, Kahlenberg’s ...
The Boston Globe

Two years after Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, where do Asian Americans stand?

Many Asian American students, researchers, and parents are searching for answers amid the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education. Kathryn ...