DETROIT

The University of Michigan said Wednesday that it is resuming the admission of students for fall 2007 and will comply with new voter-approved curbs on affirmative action.

The Ann Arbor school, along with Michigan State University and Wayne State University, had sought more time to make the switch to admissions or financial aid systems that do not grant preferential treatment based on race or sex.

The University of Michigan had suspended its admissions process but a university official said admissions would resume Wednesday and would comply with Proposal 2, an amendment to the state Constitution that won voter approval Nov. 7.

Proposal 2 bans the use of race and gender preferences in public university admissions and government hiring and contracting.

“We cannot sustain any further delay in our admissions process without harming our ability to enroll a class of students for the 2007-08 academic year,” said Teresa A. Sullivan, executive vice president of academic affairs, in a news release.

The university will continue its legal challenge to the anti-affirmative action measure, but will comply in the interim, she said.

“As stated in the language of Proposal 2, our admissions and financial aid processes will not discriminate against, nor grant preferential treatment to, any individual on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin,” she said.

On Tuesday, the pro-affirmative action group By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN, continued its fight against Proposal 2, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to give universities more time to comply with parts of the new law.

The three universities said they wanted to finish the current cycle, mostly affecting students entering the universities later in 2007, under rules that were in place before the approval of Proposal 2.

U.S. District Judge David Lawson granted the universities an extension until July 1 after attorneys for Gov. Jennifer Granholm and attorney general Mike Cox had signed off on the deal.