Posted on 10/10/2007 1:59:00 PM PDT by bs9021
A New York University law professor who has analyzed Supreme Court quota cases, like many proponents of affirmative action, is hard put to give an estimate of something diversity offices make a goal of—the increase in enrollment in college of minority students using racial preferences.
“I don’t know that it would have any change on the number of people going to college,” Samuel Estreicher said on Constitution Day at the Cato Institute. “It might change the mix of schools attended.”
The question of how many blacks have benefited from a policy designed to aid them is one that usually does draw blanks and there is some evidence indicating that it has little if any impact despite four decades of expensive litigation. For one thing, African-American enrollment in law school is going down, as Emmanuel Opati reports on this site. Last year, we reported that the dean of North Carolina Central University’s School of Law said that “Deans of law schools are concerned about the low numbers of minorities applying to law schools.” Three years ago, we reported that Georgetown law school professor Harold Holzer, an affirmative action advocate, put the minority enrollment gains in higher education at one to two percent.
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