A Group Attacking Affirmative Action Seeks Help From Trustees and Students

By PATRICK HEALY

To protect themselves and their universities from lawsuits, trustees should study court decisions on affirmative action and end campus policies that use preferences to increase racial diversity, according to a trustee "handbook" released last week by a non-profit legal center that has sued colleges over those policies.

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