DESEGREGATION PLANS STRUCK DOWN

Academe, Sep/Oct 2007 by Bradley, Gwendolyn

The U.S. Supreme Court in June struck down, 5-4, two K-12 school desegregation plans that assigned children to schools based on race. The case did not directly involve higher education, but briefs filed in the case, including an amicus brief filed by the AAUP, referred to Grutter v.

Bollinger, the Supreme Court's 2003 ruling upholding the University of Michigan law school's limited right to consider race in admissions. The January-February 2008 issue of Academe will carry an analysis of the ruling's implications for higher education by Robert O'Neil, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression at the University of Virginia and former chair of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

-G.B.