Earlier this month conservative black activist Ward Connerly launched a ballot initiative in Michigan to ban racial preferences in admissions–a tactic he used in California and Washington and could soon take to other states.
The Center for Equal Opportunity has filed three complaints with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, arguing that programs designed to boost minority enrollment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, St. Louis University and Virginia Tech violate the law. At the same time, it has written letters to some 30 other schools, threatening to file more complaints if the schools don’t make changes in “race exclusive” scholarship and out-reach programs–a strategy that could serve as a model for future attacks.
