U Michigan supporters file: schools, politicians, and businesses line up to support diversity policy. (In The News).Weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court begins hearing arguments in the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. cases, colleges and universities, corporations, politicians, and even military leaders have voiced their support of the school's policies. Sixty amicus briefs supporting affirmative action had been submitted to the court by the February 19 deadline, three times more than those opposing the policy that considers minority status as a factor in admissions. Universities siding with Michigan include University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. , University of Pittsburgh, Wayne State, Temple, Arizona State, Illinois public universities, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Georgetown, and Vanderbilt. Colleges participating include Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. , Bowdoin, Amherst, Barnard, Davidson, Hampshire, Macalester, Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, Sarah Lawrence, Smith, Swarthmore, Vassar, Wellesley, Wesleyan, and Williams. Some of the leading technology corporations joined the schools' position, including 3M, Microsoft, Nike, Reebok Ree´bok` n. 1. (Zool.) The peele. , Chevron, Texaco, Shell Oil, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Johnson & Johnson. The firms say diversity is essential to innovation in the technology sector. More than 20 former military officials, including Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and former defense secretaries William Perry and William Cohen, also filed on behalf of Michigan, arguing that national security is best served by a diverse officer corps. Congress, too, weighed in on the case that at times seems to be drawn along party lines. Nearly 100 House Democrats filed in support of U Michigan, as did 12 senators including John Edwards and John Kerry, Tom Daschle, Hillary Rodham Rodham is an English surname which may refer to a number of persons or places. People Family of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Curt Levey, an attorney representing the plaintiffs in the cases, dismissed the filings as a "politically correct politically correct Politically sensitive adjective Referring to language reflecting awareness and sensitivity to another person's physical, mental, cultural, or other disadvantages or deviations from a norm; a person is not mentally retarded, but " public relations effort. Colleges and universities want to be seen as having fought a hard fight, but stood little chance of victory in the conservative Supreme Court, he said. |
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