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Download full textOrfield, 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
United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC. – 2003
This legal document asserts that the judgment of the Court of Appeals upholding the constitutionality of the University of Michigan Law School's race-conscious admissions policy should be affirmed. It argues that research evidence in the record supports the compelling interest in promoting educational diversity (the Gurin Report supports the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, College Admission
United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC. – 2003
This legal document presents the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the affirmative action case brought against the University of Michigan's Law School. On June 23, 2003, the Court held in Grutter v. Bollinger et al. that diversity is a compelling interest in higher education and that race is one of a number of factors that can be taken into…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, 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
