The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor said today that it was resuming its consideration of applications for admission this fall, and would make decisions on admissions and financial aid in accordance with the state’s new constitutional ban on the use of racial, ethnic, and gender preferences by state agencies. In a news release, Teresa A. Sullivan, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, said that “we cannot sustain any further delay in our admissions process without harming our ability to enroll a class of students for the 2007-8 academic year” and that additional delays “may cause us to lose applicants, or make it harder for us to enroll the outstanding students we have admitted.”

The university had joined Michigan State and Wayne State Universities in asking the federal courts to let them complete their current admissions cycles without complying with constitutional ban, known as Proposal 2, but a federal district-court decision to grant such a delay was overturned last month by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Ms. Sullivan initially instructed admissions officers to put their activities on hold until today, to give the university time to plan its next move. An emergency appeal of the Sixth Circuit’s decision was filed at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday by the Detroit-based Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary, widely known as BAMN.