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Press Kit table of CONTENTS —
updated October 28, 2003
Background Information:
- Fact Sheet — Basic facts in the two affirmative action lawsuits, including most recent developments, revised October 23, 2003
- New: Summary of the Supreme Court opinions issued June 23, 2003, in Grutter v. Bollinger et al. (Law School) and Gratz et al. v. Bollinger et al. (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts), by Jonathan Alger, University of Michigan Assistant General Counsel, June 27, 2003
- New: New undergraduate admissions policy: Process to involve more information, individual review, September 2, 2003
- Summary of the University's Legal Argument, revised May 20, 2002
- Summary of the Supreme Court decision in Bakke
- Chronology of Key Rulings in the University of Michigan Affirmative Action Lawsuits and
Other Higher Education Affirmative Action Suits, revised October 23, 2003
- Legal Experts — revised June 12, 2003 — A list of law professors at other universities who may be useful for background on the lawsuits and affirmative action
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Press Clippings:
- "The Educational Importance of Race" -- Op-ed by President Bollinger and Provost Cantor, Washington Post, 4/28/98, on the educational philosophy that underlies affirmative action in university admissions.
- "A Michigan Legacy: What Michigan Can Really Learn From California" -- Op-ed in the Detroit News, 5/17/99, by Provost Cantor on the impact in California of the ban on affirmative action.
- "Inclusive America, Under Attack" -- Op-ed in The New York Times, 8/8/99, by former President Ford supporting the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy.
- "College By the Numbers" -- Op-ed in The New York Times, 12/24/99, by Cornell president emeritus Rhodes on problems with the "percent solution" to diversity.
- "U-M affirmative action policy enriches the campus, alums and the community," by Saul Green, The Detroit Free Press, October 15, 2001
- Appeals Court Weighs U-M Affirmative Action, The University Record, December 17, 2001, By Anthony Collings, U-M Office of the Vice President for Communications
- Texas's 10 Percent Experiment, by Fred Hiatt, The Washington Post,
October 28, 2002
- "The Myth And Math of Affirmative Action" -- Op-ed in the Washington Post, April 14, 2002, by Goodwin Liu, a Washington attorney who was a Supreme Court law clerk during the 2000-01 term.
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