The Chronicle News Blog: Report Urges Colleges Not to Cave In to Threats and Pressure on Affirmative Action
Colleges have been unnecessarily scaling back their affirmative-action programs in response to threats of litigation and pressure from Bush-administration officials, a report released on Monday by the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles argues.
The Civil Rights Project, which long had been based at Harvard University but moved to the University of California at Los Angeles (and appended its name) this year, says that the Supreme Court’s 2003 decision upholding race-conscious admissions policies at the University of Michigan’s law school should have been seen as a green light to colleges to continue considering students’ race and ethnicity for the sake of promoting diversity.
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