The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: No Matter What The Courts Decide Colleges Will Seek To Increase Diversity

April 04, 2012

No Matter What The Courts Decide Colleges Will Seek To Increase Diversity

With its decision to take up racial preferences in admissions at public colleges, the Supreme Court has touched off a national guessing game about how far it might move against affirmative action and how profoundly colleges might change as a result. But no matter how the court acts, recent history shows that when courts or new laws restrict affirmative action, colleges try to find other ways to increase minority admissions. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/us/college-affirmative-action-policies-change-with-laws.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120402

Apr 4, 2012 1:38:00 AM | Diversity

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