Missouri-Columbia to Keep Summer Program for Minorities
COLUMBIA, Mo.
The University of Missouri at Columbia is sticking by its Transitions program for incoming minority students, even as other schools change or eliminate their programs in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision on the University of Michigan’s affirmative action case.
“The Transitions program is specially designed to increase diversity on campus,” deputy chancellor Mike Middleton says. “I am committed to continuing these programs until the courts tell us they’re inappropriate.
“As of now, the law of the land is that these kinds of programs that consider race and ethnicity for the purpose of enhancing our legitimate and compelling interest in diversity on this campus are appropriate,” Middleton says.
