Teaching
Recommendations Based on Your Time
If
you have one day . . .
- As
an introduction to the case, have the students complete
the activity titled "You
Decide: Who Should be Admitted?" Discuss responses
and read the appropriate case background and answer
the questions.
- "
For homework, have students read the Court's opinion
and answer the accompanying questions.
If
you have two days . . .
If
you have three days . . .
If
you have four days . . .
- Complete
all of the activities suggested for the first, second
and third days.
- Have
students read and react to the following selection:
"An
Ode to Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.: The Supreme Court
Approves The Consideration of Race as a Factor in
Admissions by Public Institutions of Higher Education"
"
- In
a follow-up discussion, focus on the following: "Justice
O'Connor expressed the hope that twenty-five years
from now race-conscious admissions will not be necessary."
Do you agree or disagree?
- Explain
to students that although the Michigan affirmative
action cases held that certain forms of affirmative
action policies are permissible under the Fourteenth
Amendment, the Constitution does not compel the use
of race as a factor in admissions to promote diversity.
Prior to the Michigan cases, several states had moved
toward race-neutral admissions policies. Have students
examine the article The
Race Neutral Admissions Race and consider reasons
for the problems that race neutral policies have encountered.
Ask students: Are there alternatives to affirmative
action admissions policies that may promote diversity
in higher education? If so, what are they?
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