Jumping the Diversity Train

Jumping the Diversity Train

Peter W. Wood on Diversity & Higher Education on National Review Online

At the end of August the University of Michigan announced how it would comply with the Supreme Court's ruling in Gratz v. Bollinger, the ruling in June that outlawed UM's undergraduate racial quotas for failing to meet the test of being 'narrowly tailored.' UM's response, unveiled on August 28, has three parts. Applicants will now have to divulge information about the educational backgrounds of family members; their high-school counselors or principals will have to respond to a form that asks whether they know of 'any socio-economic, personal, or educational circumstance that may have affected this student's academic achievement, either positively or negatively;' and applicants will have to write a 250-word 'diversity' essay.