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Article: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Drops Policy for Minorities.
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- February 11, 2003
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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 ...