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...ARBOR, Mich.—Carter Professor of Business Administration Robert J. Dolan packed up his office earlier this week after more than 20 years of teaching at the Harvard Business School (HBS), and headed for the midwest, where he will become dean of the University of Michigan??€™s Business School...
...ranked teams in the nation: Michigan and Brown. But University of Southern California, then tied for fifth in Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association polls, pulled out to an early lead to steal the show and earn a spot in the Grand Final with a time of 6:43.3 ahead of Michigan?...
Although the system that the law school uses to give an extra edge to applicants from under-represented ethnic groups may not be ideal, we support Michigan??€™s fight to preserve its affirmative action programs. The system followed by Michigan relied on the accepted standard for affirmative action in higher education, namely that race or ethnicity can be used as one of many factors in deciding a candidate’s admission. This standard, which was based on Harvard’s admissions policy, has been in place since the Supreme Court’s 1978 Bakke decision...
Friedman’s decision comes after a contrary decision by U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Duggan concerning Michigan??€™s undergraduate program. Duggan found that the use of race as a factor in the undergraduate system was justified by the government’s compelling interest in the educational benefits of diversity. Students learn from each other as well as from professors, and a diverse student body adds to the student experience and the educational value of an institution. Affirmative action is a legitimate means of achieving this goal...
...soundly reject Friedman’s interpretation of Bakke, in which he found that the attainment of an ethnically diverse class is not a constitutionally permissable goal. Upholding such a ruling would lead to a far less diverse Michigan campus and a significant loss to the educational experience of Michigan??€™s students...