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Weatherhead Professor of Public Management Steven J. Kelman ’70, a member of the 10-person committee that Summers has appointed to advise him on the search, said that experience as a public official and academic administrator is a “plus?? but not a prerequisite...
...agree with the Court that Harvard’s individualized admissions system—and the unquantified “plus?? it gives to minority candidates—is ideal because it provides the fairest treatment to all applicants. However, we also recognize that many state universities lack the resources to give each of over 50,000 applications a thorough look. Unfortunately, many states, facing huge deficits of their own, are even cutting university budgets at a time when the number of prospective students is at record levels—forcing admissions offices to use time-saving short...
...decisions, a majority of the Court could adopt any of three approaches. First, it could uphold the 1978 ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke that promoting diversity is a compelling interest and that race is a legitimate consideration when used as a “plus?? factor in a competitive admissions policy. The Court would then apply the Bakke standards to the Michigan policies, and would most likely uphold one or more of the policies as consistent with Bakke...
Third, the Court could endorse the diversity rationale as a compelling interest, but it could establish a new set of tests to measure whether the Michigan policies are “narrowly tailored.” The Bakke “plus?? factor test, which has been largely confined to higher education admissions cases, could be replaced with guidelines that have been applied in other affirmative action cases, where the Court has looked at factors such as time limits, flexibility and the burdens on non-minorities...
...Sisler’s focus on the “plus?? in “scholarship plus?? subtracts from the number of slots available to people writing in academic fields without commercial possibilities. And aspiring scholars frequently confront an informal “two-book” rule—to be considered for a tenured humanities position at a top university, many departments expect that a candidate have two books published and favorably reviewed. “University presses play a crucial role in the whole process by which people get tenure...