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Many have applauded last week’s federal appeals court ruling that upheld the legality of the University of Michigan’s Law School’s admissions policy, which seeks to admit a “critical mass?? of minority students. They have failed, however, to see that the concept of a “critical mass?? is effectively a quota system—it implies a minimum acceptable level of people, even if it is not specific...
Pursuing quotas in the form of a “critical mass?? is a face-value solution to a problem that runs deeper than race. Although ethnic diversity is an important goal, socioeconomic diversity should be given more prominence in admissions decisions than it has been given in the past. In an age when economic stratification and the income gap are drastically increasing the rift between the haves and the have-nots, students’ access, or lack thereof, to educational resources is playing a greater role in determining their academic futures. Though there is often an overlap...
...when a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of the University of Michigan Law School’s admissions process, which grants extra “points” to minority students in the admissions process, to ensure the enrollment of a “critical mass?? of black and Hispanic students...
...would that be the best use of their limited resources. Michigan’s diversity may be achieved with fewer resources than Harvard’s, but it seems to get the job done. Indeed, for the last four years Michigan has achieved its “critical mass?? of minority students. To be sure, it does not, as Justice Powell wrote of Harvard, “treat each applicant as an individual in the admissions process.” But does this mean that Michigan should redirect money spent on textbooks, classrooms and professors to ensure that...
David M. Eisenberg ’76, director of the HMS Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medicine Therapies, called for a “critical mass?? of international medical talent to add intellectual momentum to validate...