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January 24, 2007

Advocates for black students worry that foes of affirmative action have found new avenue of attack

The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 23, 2007

Many college administrators who gathered here this week for a national conference on educating black students said they saw a new threat to their programs emerging from a libertarian group's recent efforts to demand a strict accounting of expenditures on diversity by the University of Colorado at Boulder. In a report released last week, the Independence Institute, a research organization based in Golden, Colo., alleged that the state's flagship university had little idea how much money it spends promoting diversity and poorly manages such expenditures. Read article (paid subscription required).

Posted by: Heidi Cool, January 24, 2007 04:53 PM | News Topics: Higher Ed News