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Higher education is fundamentally different from other civil rights arenas. Civil rights policies are usually challenged by institutions that are being forced to pursue racial goals they oppose. Most affirmative admissions and aid policies, on the other hand, are purely voluntary efforts to achieve goals the colleges themselves support. Outside the South, colleges have not faced court orders or federal sanctions to force them to admit minority students; even in the South, there has been little such enforcement. The great majority of colleges want to maintain their civil rights policies. But white students and right-wing legal action groups trying to impose a change on these institutions are asking federal courts to prohibit these voluntary efforts and prescribe different admissions policies.

Gary Orfield. "Campus Desegregation and Its Alternatives" in Chilling Admissions: The Affirmative Action Crisis and the Search for Alternatives. Gary Orfield and Edward Miller, editors. The Civil Rights Project: Harvard College. © 1998.