Given the existence of non-selective universities, the question of whether to employ racial preferences in college admissions reduces to one of optimal allocation of a finite resource: students who are members of under-represented racial or ethnic groups. In this paper, we assess recent legal arguments that racial preferences at selective colleges promote meaningful on-campus interracial interaction…

To the world outside the college campus or even the professor absorbed in her own field of study, the accreditation process would seem an unlikely battleground for the continuing conflict over how much affirmative action is enough…