Monday, August 13, 2012

The University of Texas’ Weak Affirmative-Action Defense

The Chronicle of Higher Education
August 8, 2012, 12:28 pm
On Monday, as Peter Schmidt noted in the Chronicle, the University of Texas at Austin filed its brief with the U.S. Supreme Court defending the use of racial preferences in admissions. Like the brief of the petitioner, Abigail Fisher, the UT Austin argument is pitched directly at the likely swing vote on the Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy. I doubt it will be persuasive.

Full Story: http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/the-university-of-texass-weak-affirmative-action-defense/33949?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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