Inside Higher Ed: Casting a Wide Net
The Bush administration has not always been friendly to affirmative action in higher education — coming out against the University of Michigan’s affirmative action admissions plans, for example, when they were reviewed by the Supreme Court in 2003.
But with one of the leading groups opposing affirmative action in higher education attacking the way colleges try to diversify their applicant pools for faculty and administrative positions, one of the administration’s key civil rights agencies is backing colleges and angering their conservative critics. At issue is the practice of colleges stating in job notices that they particularly welcome applications from female or minority scholars (and in some case in fields traditionally dominated by women, that male applicants are welcome).
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