February 11, 2005

Affirmative Action Has a Future

By MARTIN MICHAELSON

Public debate over affirmative action in higher education has persisted for more than a quarter-century, punctuated by periods of particular intensity. We now appear to be in the first such period since right after the Supreme Court's June 2003 University of Michigan decisions in Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger. If history is a guide, we can expect inflamed rhetoric, facts cited out of context, misunderstanding of the law, and one-sided characterization by some affirmative-action

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