Brief for the United Negro College Fund and Kappa Alpha Psi as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents in Gratz v. Bollinger, et al.
Legal Brief - February 18, 2003
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- Diversity helps to make up for past discrimination as well as current disparity between primary/secondary schooling for minorities
- The exclusion of African Americans from the nation's traditionally white educational institutions resulted in a long history of disproportionate numbers of African Americans attending under-resourced schools
- Efforts by traditionally white universities to increase diversity are necessary to provide minorities with a spectrum of educational choices
- Colleges, universities, and professional schools must continue to be able to consider race in admissions and financial aid in order to maintain access by African Americans
