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Download full textUS Department of Justice, 2011
The United States Department of Education (ED) and the United States Department of Justice issued this guidance to explain how, consistent with existing law, postsecondary institutions can voluntarily consider race to further the compelling interest of achieving diversity. It replaces the August 28, 2008 letter issued by ED's Office for Civil…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Race, Racial Factors, Student Diversity
Peer reviewedDaniel, Philip T. K. – Journal of Law & Education, 2003
Argues that the United States Supreme Court will more likely uphold its decision in "Regents of the University of California v. Bakke" (a 1978 higher education affirmative-action case) than overturn it. (Contains 41 references.) (PKP)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, Higher Education, Race
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. – 1975
Testimony is presented in these congressional hearings by the nonfederally recognized Cowlitz and Grand River Band of Ottawa American Indian tribal and administrative representatives re: legislation introduced at the request of the two Indian groups following the Secretary of the Interior's withdrawal from Congress of distribution plans prepared…
Descriptors: American Indians, Criteria, Definitions, Federal Government
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1998
The Multiethnic Placement Act and its 1996 amendment sought to reduce the time children wait to be adopted by eliminating race-related barriers to placement. This report provides information on federal, state, and local efforts to implement the act and its amendment in foster care and adoption placement policy, guidance, and technical assistance;…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Welfare, Children, Federal Legislation
New York State Library, Albany. Legislative and Government Services. – 1978
The Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case in the U.S. Supreme Court and background information on the previous cases in California are presented. Allan Bakke is a white male who applied to the Davis medical school in both 1973 and 1974 and was refused admission even though admission slots under the college's special admissions…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, College Admission
Stone, Julius – Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, 1979
Bakke's equal protection holding is analyzed and an assessment is offered of what the decisions mean for academic special admissions programs. Discussion focuses on how race may be used as a factor in admissions decisions consistently with the equal protection clause of the Federal Constitution. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
National Committee for Adoption, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1982
There is national concern for the estimated 100,000 "special needs" children who are not quickly adopted because of age, race, ethnic background, sibling relationship, medical condition, or physical, mental or emotional handicaps. That concern has been translated into concrete recommendations in the form of a model act written by the…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Age, Child Welfare
California State Legislature, Sacramento. Senate. – 1998
These proceedings present testimony from the California Senate Select Committee on Higher Education Admissions and Outreach and the California Senate Select Committee on Higher Education regarding undergraduate admissions at the University of California (UC) in the aftermath of Proposition 209 and California Board of Regents' Special Proposal 1…
Descriptors: Administrators, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Asian Americans
