Twenty-two current and former federal civil-rights officials have joined in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the race-conscious admissions policy at the University of Texas at Austin, arguing that it oversteps not only the Education Department’s guidelines but also legal advice given to colleges by higher-education groups.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Former-Top-Civil-Rights/132052/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en