Fourteen national higher-education associations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to uphold the use of race-conscious admission policies by the University of Texas at Austin. A lawsuit challenging the university’s decision to go back to considering race after several years without doing so argues that the university had achieved sufficient diversity in its enrollments through other, race-neutral means, such as a state law guaranteeing admission to students in the top 10th of their high-school class. The associations’ brief argues that Supreme Court precedents concerning academic freedom give colleges a First Amendment right to determine for themselves which admissions policies best meet their needs. Among the groups that signed on to the brief are the American Council on Education, the American Association of Community Colleges, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
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It is always interesting to see how many comments are removed by the moderator when issues of race and Affirmative Action are discussed. This shows how much white privilege is still at play in higher education.
Steiny – Unless you have seen the comments that were removed, you cannot possibly know what this shows, if anything, other than the fact that some posters do not have the decency to post appropriate material.
Steiny – I agree with greenhills73 especially when if you check there are for postings by this ccdh1 today on several diffrent topics not just race and/or affirmative action. Maybe the postings were spam? Automatic assumptions about content eliminated are likely to lead to incorrect judgements.
steiny, thank you…I though my computer was broken, but now I know what happened to relevant posts I read in the morning that disappear before American Idol is on.