Welcome to the Affirmative Action section of our webpage.  This front page will reflect our most current information on  Affirnative Action affecting Higher Education Institutions.

 

 

Roadmap to Diversity: Key Legal and Educational Policy Foundations for Medical Schools:  AAMC document authored by Arthur Coleman, Scott Palmer, Steve Winnick, Holland and Knight, LLP. March 2008

 

Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action et al. v. Board of Regents of the University of Michigan et. al (and Cantrell v. Cox)
March 18, 2008, U.S. Dist. Court (E.D. Michigan). In this consolidated case, the court dismissed the challenge to constitutionality of the amendment to the Michigan constitution that probibits the use of affirmative action. The amendment, known as Proposal 2, prohibits the State and its political subdivisions from “discriminat[ing] against, or grant[ing] preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, ornational origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”Mich. Const. art. I, § 26(1).See the University of Michigan diversity page tracking the litigation related to Proposal 2.