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Download full textCole, Jared P. – Congressional Research Service, 2019
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits federally funded programs, activities, and institutions from discriminating based on race, color, or national origin. In its current form, Title VI remains largely unchanged since its adoption. Unlike the Civil Rights Act's better known and more heavily litigated provisions, Title VI is concerned…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Federal Legislation, Racial Discrimination, Financial Support
US Department of Justice, 2011
The United States Department of Education (ED) and the United States Department of Justice issued this guidance to explain how, consistent with existing law, postsecondary institutions can voluntarily consider race to further the compelling interest of achieving diversity. It replaces the August 28, 2008 letter issued by ED's Office for Civil…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Race, Racial Factors, Student Diversity
Orfield, Gary – 2001
This paper introduces a collection of papers that examines the impact of affirmative action on college admission and the importance of school desegregation. The book addresses whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify the consideration of race when making college admission decisions. This introduction…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, College Admission, Court Litigation
Leiter, Samuel; Leiter, William M. – 2002
This book focuses on the legal and ideological controversy over the application of affirmative action policy to combat discrimination based on race, national origin/ethnicity, and gender. After the introduction, seven chapters discuss (2) "The Roots of Affirmative Action, the Women's Movement, and the Groups Covered by Affirmative…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Bilingual Education, Black Colleges, Civil Rights
Harvard Civil Rights Project, Cambridge, MA. – 2003
On June 23, 2003, the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of race-conscious admissions policies designed to promote diversity in higher education. The Grutter versus Bollinger decision upheld the University of Michigan Law School race-conscious admissions policy as constitutional. However, in Gratz versus Bollinger, it held…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Admission, Diversity (Student), Equal Education
Ancheta, Angelo N. – 2003
This paper explains how upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger are expected to broadly affect the future of race-conscious affirmative action. In these cases, the Supreme Court addresses the constitutionality of admissions policies at the University of Michigan designed to promote educational diversity…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Admission, Constitutional Law, Diversity (Student)
Palmer, Scott R. – 2001
This chapter reviews the legal standards governing affirmative action in higher education, examining the diversity rationale and contrasting the cases of Hopwood v. Texas and Wittmer v. Peters, which were decided in 1996. It discusses: the legal standard governing affirmative action in higher education; the remedial interest in overcoming the…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Legislation, College Admission, Court Litigation
