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Crs Report for Congress: Affirmative Action and Diversity in Public Education: Legal Developments: July 16, 2007 - Rl30410
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Jody Feder
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Crs Report for Congress: Affirmative Action and Diversity in Public Education: Legal Developments: July 16, 2007 - Rl30410 - Feder, Jody ; Congressional Research Service the Libr
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Synopsis "Crs Report for Congress: Affirmative Action and Diversity in Public Education: Legal Developments: July 16, 2007 - Rl30410"
Nearly a quarter century after the Supreme Court ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the diversity rationale for affirmative action in public education remains a topic of political and legal controversy. Many colleges and universities have implemented affirmative action policies not only to remedy past discrimination, but also to achieve a racially and ethnically diverse student body or faculty. Justice Powell, in his opinion for the Bakke Court, stated that the attainment of a diverse student body is "a constitutionally permissible goal for an institution of higher education," noting that "[t]he atmosphere of speculation, experiment, and creation' so essential to the quality of higher education is widely believed to be promoted by a diverse student body." In recent years, however, federal courts began to question the Powell rationale, unsettling expectations about the constitutionality of diversity-based affirmative action in educational admissions and faculty hiring. After a series of conflicting lower court rulings were issued regarding the use of race to promote a diverse student body, the Supreme Court agreed to review the race-conscious admissions policies used by the undergraduate and law school admissions programs at the University of Michigan. In Grutter v. Bollinger, a 5 to 4 ...
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