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Eliminating Scholarships Florida
Eliminating Scholarships
Thursday August 30 6:26 AM ET
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The University of Florida has announced that it will no longer award scholarships based on race. The university will immediately begin revising more than 50 minority scholarship programs to make them race neutral, UF Foundation Vice President Leslie Bram said Wednesday.
Bram said she expects the process to take about a year. ``The law has become pretty clear on this,'' she said. ``Race-based scholarships are rapidly becoming illegal.'' On Monday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled that an affirmative action admissions policy at the University of Georgia was unconstitutional.
That decision may indicate which way the court will rule if the question of race-based scholarships comes up, UF Associate General Counsel Stephen Prevaux said. Several universities around the country have been sued by students excluded from scholarships because of their race. UF Provost David Colburn said any student with an existing scholarship will be allowed to keep it.
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