It was nearly 40 years ago when a fractured U.S. Supreme Court was searching for an acceptable and lawful way to take race and ethnicity into account in college admissions. The court majority viewed as unconstitutional a system that would set aside a specific number of seats for one racial group or another. But justices also wanted to enable colleges to take steps they might deem necessary to attain a racially diverse student body.
How to do that? Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. turned to the nation’s oldest college for answers.
Read more at The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/06/21/how-harvard-set-the-model-for-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions/
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