Mark Yudof co-writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 3, 2017
Confronted with the prospect of adversarial proceedings, colleges will spend more time and resources on admissions and less on programs that capitalize on diversity in their student bodies. There will be fewer opportunities to develop and refine small classroom seminars that promote the exchange of ideas, campus activities that build cross-racial understanding, or programs that cultivate leadership skills in a multiracial society. Yet these are the very initiatives to maximize diversity’s benefits that the court very likely had expected to emerge in a more stable legal climate for affirmative action.