Michigan’s plan for minority outreach, according to the Detroit News:
Aggressive outreach to minorities and swift, competitive financial aid offers will be essential to continuing diversity at the University of Michigan in light of Proposal 2 restrictions, according to a report released Thursday. Those cornerstone recommendations from the Diversity Blueprints Task Force provide an early glimpse into how U-M plans to preserve diversity on campus at a time when it can no longer grant preferential treatment in admissions on the basis of race, gender or ethnicity. … Alan Foutz, attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, which has been closely watching compliance of Proposal 2 in Michigan, said that while U-M’s prescription for more outreach doesn’t violate Proposal 2 on its face, it will ultimately come down to implementation. “It doesn’t appear to me that they are going to be charging off in a completely inappropriate direction,” Foutz said. Potential violations would occur if U-M is “using a type of outreach effort to a particular racial category but not using that type of outreach effort for any other racial category.”
Meanwhile, racial information still remains on Michigan’s application forms, according to the Michigan Review.






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