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Ward, LaWanda W. M. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
Ongoing sociolegal conflicts over affirmative action in race-conscious admissions in U.S. higher education have significant modern-day relevance. This article, informed mainly by Asian American women's scholarship, explores discourse in U.S. Supreme Court rulings and oral arguments and how litigation actors continue to recycle this discourse in…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Asian American Students
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Asian American Law Students' Association – Amerasia Journal, 1978
This paper contains edited excerpts from a report written by Asian American students at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School in 1975 in response to the faculty's proposal to eliminate or reduce the special admissions program for Asians on the grounds that they have "made it" in American society. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Asian Americans, Higher Education
Asian and Pacific American Federal Employee Council, Washington, DC. – 1977
Amidst much controversy, the United States Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court on behalf of the special minority admissions program at the University of California Medical School at Davis. This fact sheet is intended to show why Asian and Pacific Americans and those friendly toward Asians should pay careful…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admission (School), Affirmative Action, Asian Americans
Kahng, Anthong I. – Bridge, An Asian American Perspective, 1978
Presented in this article is an overview of the Allan Bakke case. Implications are made for the effects the court's decision will have on the future of affirmative action and on the potential civil rights achievements of minority groups, particularly Asian Americans. (EB)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, College Admission
Haro, Carlos Manuel, Ed. – 1977
In 1973 and 1974, Allan Bakke, a Caucasian, applied for admission to the medical school of the University of California-Davis and was refused admission. Of the 100 places available each year, 16 were reserved, under a special admission program, for Mexican Americans, blacks, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. Bakke filed a complaint against…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admission (School), Background, Court Litigation
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Hughes, Sherick; Thompson Dorsey, Dana N.; Carrillo, Juan F. – Educational Policy, 2016
Justice Goodwin Liu reexamined seminal affirmative action in higher education legal cases beginning with the landmark 1978 case, "Regents of the University of California v. Bakke" and leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 decision in "Gratz v. Bollinger." Liu argued that the "Bakke and Gratz" lawsuits were…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Higher Education, Court Litigation, Disproportionate Representation