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The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan. The university was founded in 1817 in Detroit, about 20 years before the territory of Michigan officially became a state, and moved to Ann Arbor in 1837. Today, it is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus; there are two satellite campuses ? the University of Michigan-Flint and the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Affirmative Action Arguments Today.
- 2003-04-01
By Allen Pusey, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 1--WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in two affirmative action cases that will shape the role of racial diversity on college campuses for decades to come....
Don't topple Michigan's careful balancing act
- 2003-03-28
BOSTON -- It doesn't exactly amount to mutiny. On the other hand, it's not every day that the commander in chief is opposed quite so publicly by the military. Yet this is what's happening on April 1 when the Bush administration lines up behind opponents of affirmative action...
Taking sides: legal scholars may be divided on the possible outcome of the University of Michigan's affirmative action cases, but they all agree it will be historic - Ruling On Affirmitive Action
- 2003-02-27
As lawyers on both sides make their final preparations for the approaching April 1 deadline to present oral arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court in the University of Michigan's two affirmative action cases, legal scholars say it's anyone's guess on who will eventually prevail in the landmark decision. Marvin...
Diversity Is Not Limited to Race, Two Women Say.
- 2003-01-16
By Robert Becker, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 16--As Barbara Grutter sees it, she embodies the kind of diversity that most law schools want. The 49-year-old mother of two had worked in the health-care information technology field...
Supreme Court asked to hear University of Michigan case - Brief Article
- 2002-08-29
ANN ARBOR, MICH. A group that sued to overturn minority preferences in University of Michigan law school admissions has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled 5-4 on May 14 that the Michigan law school's affirmative...
Diversity on Trial.
- 2001-05-07
The fate of affirmative action in education may soon be decided by the Supreme Court. If this article had appeared before Tuesday, March 27, the sentence you are reading now would have said: "A recent decision by a district court judge about...
Jesse Jackson Urges Students to Fight University of Michigan Ruling - to stop using race in its admissions policies - Brief Article
- 2001-04-26
ANN ARBOR, MICH. After a federal judge ordered the University of Michigan law school to stop using race in its admissions policies, the Rev. Jesse Jackson urged students at a campus rally to fight the ruling. Jackson told hundreds of students at an afternoon rally early this month...
University of Michigan's Admissions Policy Rejected - racial quotas litigation - Brief Article
- 2001-04-12
Judge rules diversity is not a compelling state interest Many national leaders expressed shock and disappointment late last month after a U.S. District Judge in Detroit ruled that the University of Michigan's race-conscious law school admissions policy is unconstitutional. Lawyers for the University of Michigan and a group of...
Federal Court Upholds U-Michigan's Use of Race in Admissions - University of Michigan - Brief Article
- 2001-01-04
DETROIT Supporters of affirmative action across the nation are feeling upbeat after a judge's ruling in federal court here upheld the University of Michigan's use of race in admissions last month. The decision -- which came just one week after an affirmative action victory in Washington State --...
Alamo in Ann Arbor - University of Michigan admissions
- 1999-09-13
A test case for racial preferences. Mr. Thernstrom is Winthrop Professor of History at Harvard and co- author, with his wife Abigail Thernstrom, of America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible. Panic may be setting in. The legal conflict over race-based admissions at the University of Michigan...
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