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U. of Mass. Limits Racial Preferences, Despite Vow To Increase Minority Enrollment.
Healy, Patrick – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
The decision of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to stop giving significant admissions preference to minority students sparked student protests and debate about universities' promises of affirmative action. Constitutional scholars and higher-education officials found the university's numerical goals for admissions legally risky, so the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Affirmative Action, College Admission, Enrollment Management