Intergroup Relations

The Project on Fair Representation, a nonprofit legal organization, is seeking plaintiffs for potential lawsuits challenging the race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The organization announced the effort on Monday.

http://chronicle.com/article/Affirmative-Action-Foe-Plans/145797/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

The Chronicle of Higher Education

WASHINGTON — It was the last Monday in June, and the Supreme Court had just issued its latest decision on affirmative action. The debate was starting about how much the court had restricted the use of race in college

The backlash by Chinese-American activists against a measure aimed at restoring affirmative action in the admissions process at California’s public universities has set off political fisticuffs between ethnic groups accustomed to battling side-by-side.

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_25505077/affirmative-action-debate-create-rifts-ethnic-communities

San Jose Mercury News

The United States Department of Education is investigating whether Florida State properly responded to a student’s allegation that she had been sexually assaulted by the university’s star quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner, Jameis Winston.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/04/sports/ncaafootball/inquiry-to-revisit-jameis-winston-case-on-civil-rights-grounds.html?ref=education

The New York Times

Always lurking beneath the high-minded discourse has been the question of how racial preferences — or a ban on