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Direct linkClegg, Roger; Rosenberg, John S. – Academic Questions, 2012
The Supreme Court has granted review for the 2012 term in the case "Fisher v. University of Texas." Abigail Fisher, a rejected white applicant to the University of Texas, has challenged the use of racial and ethnic admission preferences, which the Court had allowed in its 2003 decision involving the University of Michigan law school,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Affirmative Action, Educational Benefits, Court Litigation
Clegg, Roger – Academic Questions, 2011
In this essay, the author discusses how affirmative action contributed to an unnatural rise in enrollments in college. In considering the higher education bubble, he makes the case that as the opposition to preferences continues to build, the momentum of this trend will only increase as funding shrinks. He offers some tentative answers to a series…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Affirmative Action, Costs, Enrollment
Clegg, Roger – Academic Questions, 2008
Are we facing the end of racial preferences in America? Mr. Clegg thinks we probably are, and examines the role demographics, law, attraction, and vision may play in their demise. What makes preferences still attractive to so many people? Do most Americans share a vision that includes the continued use of racial preferences? Mr. Clegg offers a…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Racial Factors, Selective Admission, Ethnic Diversity
