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Direct linkLewis, Lionel S. – Academic Questions, 2005
This account of an academic lawsuit qualifies as a horror story. A mediocre minority student abuses civil rights and ADA protections to win a massive monetary award against his school on the flimsiest of evidence. Jaded lawyers for the state university represent powerless faculty defendants in court, torpidly allowing the jury to throw 50 years of…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Institutional Autonomy, Court Litigation, College Faculty
McCormack, Wayne, Ed. – 1978
An analysis is presented of the "Bakke" decision and the several opinions of the Supreme Court Justices. The principal issue presented by the case is whether a higher education institution using a selective admission program may adjust that program by giving explicit preference to qualified members of identified racial or ethnic groups…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, College Admission
Peer reviewedFinkin, Matthew W. – Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP, 1979
The structure and reasoning of Justice Powell's decision in the Bakke case are examined with specific reference to the concepts of institutional autonomy and academic freedom. (BH)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Constitutional Law
