The Supreme Court's decision in Grutter v. Bollinger,'upholding race-conscious affirmative
action in admissions to the University of Michi-gan Law School, is widely seen as a …

Indeed, the culture of affirmative action itself has evolved into a system that can no longer
offer very much hope of achieving more than the most modest goals. Unfortunately, legal …

In the landmark 2003 affirmative action case Grutter v. Bollinger,'United States Supreme
Court Justice Clarence Thomas authored a startling dissenting opinion. 2 Grutter, for all …

Twice denied admission to a California medical school despite better grades and test scores
than successful minority applicants, Allan Bakke took his grievance to court and set off a …

The landmark case of Bakke v. UC Regents established not only the jurisprudential
foundation for affirmative action litigation, but also the factual record of relevant evidence …

What is it that makes a university great? Traditionally, we have assumed that only institutions
that pursued and espoused excellence, communities of scholars that were unstinting in their …

In December 1997, Barbara Grutter brought a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the
University of Michigan Law School's admissions policy. In June 2003 the United States …

Since the Supreme Court decided Regents of the University of California v. Bakke'in 1978, it
has generally been assumed that race could be considered a factor in admitting students …

My subject today is higher education and the legal issues related to what we usually call
diversity. As many of you know, the University of Michigan, where I served as President from …

The Supreme Court's most recent confrontation with race-based affirmative action, Fisher v.
University of Texas,'did not live up to people's expectations-or their fears. The Court did not …