Bakke decision

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Bakke decision - a ruling by the Supreme Court on affirmative action; the Court ruled in 1978 that medical schools are entitled to consider race as a factor in their admission policy

law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

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Bakke decision, which ruled that universities can consider race in admissions in order to create a more diverse student population.

The Rhetorical Invention of Diversity: Supreme Court Opinions, Public Argument, and Affirmative Action

The Supreme Court's decision to reinforce the 1978 Bakke decision by rendering diversity a compelling state interest.

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The plan became a model for the one used by the University of California and was litigated all the way to the Supreme Court in the landmark Bakke decision. Though the Supreme Court approved that type of plan, it reverberates even today as the court decides the Fisher v.

Walter Leonard, Harvard diversity pioneer, dies at 86

The Bakke decision marked a turning point in higher education.

An unlikely alliance: re-examining the architecture of affirmative action

(25) With no majority opinion, the Supreme Court reached its landmark 5-4 decision with "no single one speaking for the Court." (26) While the Bakke decision ruled that universities could not set specific quotas for minority admissions, it left open the possibility that race could be used as a factor to achieve the important goal of diversity on campuses.

Colorblind diversity: the changing significance of "race" in the post-Bakke era

The admissions process did not use quotas and therefore complied with one of the few clear mandates announced in the Bakke decision (Regents of the University of California v.

Grutter v. Bollinger and the community college

Bollinger, the affirmative-action decision, merely cemented what has been, in practice, the status quo for twenty-five years, ever since the Court's Bakke decision. The reason holding the line is considered such a victory is that the Court has cut back so much on equal protection since Bakke, committing itself to an illusory ideal of "colorblindness" that is willfully blind to the fact that race still matters.