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Fair And Facially Neutral Higher Educational Admissions Through Disparate Impact Analysis, Michael G. Perez
Fair And Facially Neutral Higher Educational Admissions Through Disparate Impact Analysis, Michael G. Perez
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Part I of this Note proposes both remedial and instrumental justifications for applying disparate impact scrutiny to admissions policies. This Part argues that disparate impact analysis should be applied to higher education as a remedy for the disadvantage minority applicants face as a result of historic and ongoing intentional discrimination and that schools are culpable for unnecessarily utilizing admissions criteria that have this discriminatory effect. The result of applying disparate impact analysis will be admissions policies that produce diverse student bodies while remaining facially neutral with regard to race. Part II proposes that a necessity standard, unique to the higher …