Monday, October 24, 2011

ERBE: Supreme Court to take up affirmative action

The Times Herald
Posted: 10/23/11 05:33 pm
Scripps Howard News Service

Is affirmative action passe, or is it a vibrant doctrine that is still sorely needed to diversify the nation’s public colleges and universities? That is a question the Supreme Court is likely to take up and answer later in the current term.
At issue is whether public colleges and universities can take into account a student’s race when deciding whether to grant that student admission. A white woman named Abigail Fisher claims she was denied admission to the University of Texas due to her race. According to The New York Times, “She sued in Federal District Court in Austin, causing Judge Sam Sparks to spend time trying to make sense of a 2003 Supreme Court decision allowing racial preferences in higher education.

Full Story: http://timesherald.com/article/20111023/NEWS/111029868/-1/news

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