Word: briefness
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Steiner wrote a significant portion of the renowned amicus curiae brief in Bakke, using Harvard's admissions procedure as an example of how diversity can play a role in higher education. The brief so impressed the Court that Harvard was cited in the majority decision as an example of how diversity can be used appropriately as a criteria...
Most of the brief is spent advocating the merits of diversity in higher education...
...decades, [educators] have been working to achieve diversity in American higher education," the brief reads. "They have done this for two reasons: they know from deep experience that with greater diversity comes better education; they also know that diversity advances knowledge in ways that break down stereotyped preconceptions, thereby preparing young people for our pluralistic society...
Harvard will not file a statement of its own views with the Court as it did in Bakke, but the University's professors, publications and president are cited repeatedly in the ACE brief...
Among the items listed in the brief's bibliography are President Neil L. Rudenstine's Annual Report of 1995; an article authored by Rudenstine that was published in The Chronicle of Higher Education in 1996; and an advertisement by the Association of American Universities, which Rudenstine orchestrated, published in The New York Times in April...