The Chronicle: REOPENING AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION DEBATE
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up the question of whether race can be a factor in assigning students to public schools. How the court decides the two cases could affect the landmark 2003 decisions involving the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Inside Higher Ed: Another Swing at Affirmative Action
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday to hear a pair of cases dealing with the use of affirmative action in the public schools, which higher education legal experts agreed could give a newly configured (and more conservative) court the chance to review its 2003 ruling in two University of Michigan cases that allowed colleges to consider race in admitting students.