As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to undertake its second close examination of race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin, several other public universities are being accused of trying to shield such affirmative-action practices from outside scrutiny.
Two briefs recently submitted to the court in the pending admissions-policy case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, accuse long lists of public institutions of defying open-records laws by withholding requested documents that deal with their consideration of applicants’ race.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Are-Accused-of/233686