Article: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Drops Policy for Minorities.

By Marcella Bombardieri, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 11--Under investigation by the federal Office for Civil Rights, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has scrapped the minority-only admission policy for two summer programs designed to build science and math skills in high-school students and incoming college freshmen.

MIT said yesterday that it will open the two programs, which for three decades have admitted only African-American, Hispanic, and Native American students, to all students.

Under fire from anti-affirmative action groups, and with the Supreme Court poised to decide the legality of ...

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