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Science 21 February 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5610, p. 1167
DOI: 10.1126/science.299.5610.1167
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SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE:
MIT Broadens Minority-Only Programs

Jeffrey Mervis

This month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that, under pressure from the government, it will now accept white students into a summer program for minority high school students and a similar effort to help incoming minority freshmen. The Cambridge school's retreat comes at the same time that it is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold race as a factor in admissions, in pending cases involving the University of Michigan.

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