Willborn said the center reached broad conclusions based on a small number of students. According to statistics provided by the group, 14 of 41 Black students who applied to the law college were admitted to the college last year, although not all of them enrolled.
By comparison, 273 of 729 White applicants were admitted.
``They're talking about something like 14 or 15 African-Americans admitted to the law school, and that's why they want to change the constitution?'' to prohibit affirmative action, Willborn said.
The law college's admission policies, he said, are consistent with a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2003. In its decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, the high court banned the use of rigid formulas that award points based on race for admission to the University of Michigan's undergraduate program and law school.
But the court permitted colleges to consider race as part of a ``holistic review'' of every application.
Willborn said considering race when admitting students is common at law colleges around the country.
University of Nebraska officials who oversee undergraduate admissions have said race is not considered when making decisions on which students to admit to the university's four campuses.
Clegg said his group studied undergraduate admissions at the flagship campus, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and found there ``was no statistically significant evidence of discrimination.''
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