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...Leading corporations, business groups, professional organizations and executives have repeatedly called for consideration of race and ethnicity in university admissions,” the brief states...
Ultimately though, the brief is an updated defense of the “Harvard plan,” arguing that “an individualized admissions process” does not “become a ‘quota’ simply because the number of admitted minority students may not vary radically from year to year...
Harvard files a friend of the court brief in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases, which will be decided by the Supreme Court at the end of June. The University, along with several other major universities who signed the brief, argues that having a diverse student body is a vital element of higher education...
When tanned and rested undergraduates returned a week later, American tanks were bearing down on Baghdad, and business continued as usual at a campus where the student opinion on the war remained sharply divided. The fighting, which lasted less than a month, was brief and decisive. But at Harvard, the clarity of America’s military victory has done little to bring together the fractured views of students and professors...
Back in February, Harvard filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the general principles of affirmative action and diversity in the two cases against the University of Michigan. Six other top universities joined in that brief, which was authored in part by Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe...