June 20, 2008
'Bakke' Set a New Path to Diversity for Colleges
30 years after the ruling, academe still grapples with race in admissions
Thirty years ago, Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. sent the nation's selective colleges down a path where few had ventured before.
In the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, he wrote that colleges were legally justified in giving some modest consideration to their applicants' race, so long as they were motivated by a desire to attain the educational benefits
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