Monday, August 04, 2025
Two takes on Columbia (Brown) settlements
The Knight Foundation (located at Columbia) identifies the ways it surrenders academic control (or the way an anti-university administration can deliberately misuse it to strip academic control). The authors are consistent with what I and others have written.
Michael Dorf breaks down the provisions in the Columbia and Brown agreements regarding references to race in admissions, arguing that the schools did not agree to do anything beyond what SFFA already requires and that they left themselves room to allow applicants to discuss their experiences with respect to race (and both schools continue to do so). True, the independent monitor might take an aggressive approach to the use of race even if SFFA allows it; but that would indicate larger problems for Columbia with respect to the monitor.
Posted by Howard Wasserman on August 4, 2025 at 01:17 PM in Howard Wasserman, Law and Politics | Permalink
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