To protect themselves and their universities from lawsuits, trustees should study federal-court decisions on affirmative action and end campus policies that use preferences to increase racial diversity, according to a trustee "handbook" being released today by a non-profit legal firm that has sued colleges over these policies.

The manual -- as well as a companion text urging students to scrutinize campus policies and sue to reform them -- is...

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