The University of California, San Diego, is coming up with creative ways to implement a form of affirmative action for admittance into its engineering programs. Affirmative action was illegal in ...

For example, in 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209, which prohibits the government from discriminating or giving preference based on race or sex in education, contracting or employment.

Though voters soundly rejected an effort to legalize affirmative action in California in 2020, state Democrats are trying again, proposing a limited version that would allow state agencies to ...

California, where affirmative action in college admissions was banned in 1996, educators say they have found ways to encourage diversity.

After California banned affirmative action in higher ed, everyone lost out. Into America looks to the Golden State for what might be ahead for the entire country.

University at California Los Angeles is just starting to catch up to the diversity numbers it saw before an affirmative action ban took effect in 1998, according to a university official.

California voters would be asked to erase the state’s 24-year ban on affirmative action in November under a proposal approved Wednesday by the state Assembly, with supporters arguing their ...

The Department of Justice is investigating multiple California universities both public and private to ensure they are complying with a Supreme Court ruling banning affirmative action in admissions.

California voters may again vote on whether to bring back affirmative action, but in limited form Familiar political battle lines are forming.

California, where affirmative action in college admissions was banned in 1996, educators say they have found ways to encourage diversity.

California voters may soon vote on whether they support using state money to fund programs that improve the health, education or economic well-being of specific racial, ethnic and sexual or gender ...