The Supreme Court has granted review for the 2012 term in the case "Fisher v. University of Texas." Abigail Fisher, a rejected white applicant to the University of Texas, has challenged the use of racial and ethnic admission preferences, which the Court had allowed in its 2003 decision involving the University of Michigan law school,…

"The first law of unintended consequences is that you can never know what they will be or how far they will reach." Professor Ellis examines the injuries American higher education has sustained through the unintended consequences of diversity. (Contains 4 footnotes.)

After generating months of anxiety among both proponents and opponents of public-school integration, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a predictably close 5-4 decision, ruled that the use of race in student-assignment policies by the Seattle and Louisville, Kentucky, school districts violated the rights of the white petitioners whose children were denied…

This article suggests that any approach to the issue of access to higher education in the United Kingdom not view the approach of the United States in the recent University of Michigan cases as providing appropriate guidance. It is the author's assertion that the United States Supreme Court has failed to recognize the present effects of a long…

Outlines what reverse discrimination is and is not, and argues that the constitution is color-blind. Available from University of Richmond Law Review, School of Law, University of Richmond, VA 23173. (IRT)

This paper presents an indepth analysis of Craig v. Alabama State University (ASU), a lawsuit involving charges of reverse discrimination in employment against a historical black college. The plaintiff, who felt that the nonrenewal of his contract was due to his race, won his suit against ASU for himself and all other whites similarly situated.…

Wisdom suggests that instead of correcting the injustices of yesterday by creating the new injustices of today, it is better to recognize a statute of limitations on accountability for our inhumanity to ourselves in the distant past. (Author)

Uses a question-and-answer format to amplify the "Weber" decision and explain how the case affects an employer. Is particularly concerned with the role of quotas in affirmative action plans. (IRT)

Senator Orrin Hatch argues that affirmative action is illegal, immoral, and won't work. (IRT)

This paper discusses the Supreme Court's treatment of the issues in Bakke v. Regents of University of California and its implications for admissions programs. Bakke raised two basic issues in his reverse discrimination suit. First, he argued that Davis's medical school admission program was illegal under Title VI. Second, he claimed…

Argues that Euroethnics can move out of the blue-collar class through education, struggle, and perseverance, although the higher on the executive-managerial ladder they climb, the more resistance, including reverse discrimination, they will meet. (CMG)

Discusses the history of reverse discrimination in employment and how it affects judicial treatment of affirmative action programs in the United States. (CT)

The real question behind affirmative action in higher education is whether the form of racial discrimination it represents is worth the improved access it provides. Three arguments favoring affirmative action in this context are that affirmative action (1) is needed to keep college admissions officers from discriminating against minorities; (2)…

"Affirmative action" is the term typically used to refer to two contrasting values: the value of equal opportunity and the value of equal results. The Justice Department under the Reagan Administration, however, draws a clear distinction between the two, and is committed to the "original" meaning of affirmative action. That is,…

The "Weber" decision held that a private employer's voluntary affirmative action plan designed to remedy past racial imbalances in traditionally segregated jobs does not violate the will of Congress as expressed in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Author)