Colleges can still use race for admissions -- but carefully

By Mary Beth Marklein. The Supreme Court did not dismantle the use of affirmative action in college admissions Monday, but it did put the nation's colleges and universities on alert, higher education analysts said. Any university, public or private, that considers race or ethnicity as a factor in admitting students "needs to be very careful to be able to demonstrate, if challenged, that they have considered race-neutral alternatives and that their system is narrowly tailored to achieve the educational benefits of diversity," said Ada Meloy, general counsel for the American Council on Education, a non-profit umbrella group for higher education. Read more...