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Administrators: Diversity on Campus Requires "Elementary" Solution

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Thursday, April 24, 2014   

LANSING, Mich. – Education leaders in Michigan say following this week's U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the state's ban on race-based preference in college admissions increasing diversity on the state’s college campuses needs to begin in elementary school.

Michael Boulus, executive director of the President's Council, State Universities of Michigan, says the college admissions office is not where the focus should be.

"It's K-12 education,” he stresses. “It's getting greater numbers and percentages of our underrepresented groups college ready."

Boulus adds that the Supreme Court's ruling will not change any policies for the state's public universities, which have been complying with the law since the voter-approved ban was passed in 2006.

Boulus says bridging racial and socioeconomic divides in higher education will take years of increased investment in K-12 education.

He says many Michigan colleges and universities want to be a partner in that process, and many have stepped up their outreach efforts since Proposal 2 took effect.

"There's a physical presence of many of our institutions in the city of Detroit,” he points out. “We have virtually open-enrollment options in some of our schools.

“We also have activities in urban communities aimed at improving educational opportunities and achievement."

Students at the University of Michigan have rallied this year in person and via social media for more minorities to be admitted to the school. Their actions have included a sit-in and list of demands by the leaders of the university's Black Student Union.





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