The Chronicle of Higher Education

Defense Department May Restrict U.S. Service Academies' Affirmative-Action Efforts

By PETER SCHMIDT

The nation's military-service academies could be stripped of one of their chief tools for bringing in black, Hispanic, and American Indian students as a result of regulatory changes being considered by the Department of Defense, officials of the U.S. Air Force Academy said on Tuesday.

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