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Race-sensitive campus programs are at risk. (Newswatch).
Jumping the gun on an anticipated summer Supreme Court ruling that could ban race-conscious admission policies at the University of Michigan and other campuses, three advocacy groups are working to identify and challenge any college program that serves specific minority groups. Those for women might be next.
If colleges refuse to open the programs to the excluded groups, usually white or Asian-Americans, the groups file complaints with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Already the OCR has prodded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to open admission to its two summer programs, which for decades have been limited to African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans.
Ironically, MIT recently was the first school to receive a new award for its "excellence in improving the diversity of the student and faculty bodies," achieving a 47% minority undergraduate population and increasing the number of women on the faculty.
Leading the charge against minority programs are the American Civil Rights Institute, the Center for Equal Opportunity, and the National Association of Scholars, which is ...
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