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...brief also cites a study released last week by Harvard’s Civil Rights Project, which Orfield heads, that argues against percentage plans, which some state universities use to automatically admit high-ranking high school students...
...Harvard brief also cites data from a 1998 book defending affirmative action in college admissions—The Shape of the River, authored by Bok and former Princeton President William G. Bowen—to prove what they consider the success of the Bakke decision...
Data from the book shows that “minority students admitted under these programs were highly successfully in completing rigorous academic programs, securing good jobs and contributing to community life,” according to the brief...
Another section of the brief presents what one University official called a “relatively new argument”—that American professions and businesses need leaders with experience in diversity...
...Leading corporations, business groups, professional organizations and executives have repeatedly called for consideration of race and ethnicity in university admissions,” the brief states...