Affirmative Distraction: Elimination of Affirmative Action at U-Massachusetts
Against The Current vol. 82

http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/1709
Date Written:  1999-09-01
Year Published:  1999
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX12871

The west wind has blown east. The elimination of affirmative action in Texas, California, and Washington's public university systems seemed like a phenomenon isolated to highly competitive west-coast state universities—until February 1999, when the University of Massachusetts announced that it too would eliminate the use of race-based admissions policies and scholarship programs.

Subject Headings

• Affirmative Action
• Doublespeak
• Race
• Race & Class
• Racial Conflict in Schools
• Racial Discrimination
• Universities
• University Admissions Policy