Colleges Retool Outreach Efforts As Affirmative Action Changes

First of two parts

Molly Broad began her tenure as the president of the University of North Carolina last summer hoping to shape up the system's race-based programs before the courts beat her to it.

In November, she asked the chancellors at each of the university's 16 campuses to evaluate and, where necessary, change questionable affirmative action and race-based programs to ensure that they won't topple if hit with legal challenges. Already, some campuses have opened up race-based scholarship programs to all applicants, and have expanded support programs once exclusively...