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Race and Higher Education: Why Justice Powell's Diversity Rationale for Racial Preferences in Higher Education Must Be Rejected

Link: http://www.nas.org.

The assertion of the right of higher education institutions to use racial preferences in their admissions policies has been based on the diversity rationale that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell articulated in his opinion in the "Bakke v. Regents of the University of California" case of 1978.

• Contributor: Wood, Thomas E., Sherman, Malcolm J. Corp Author National Association of Scholars Princeton N. J.
• Date Published: 05-00
• Year: 2001

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• Network/channel: NIUSI: Families & Communities: Culture
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Families & Communities: Group Identity
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Professional Effort: Learning Assessment

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