Affirmative Action in Higher Education

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This essay makes the argument that, in the wake of the upholding by the Supreme Court of the University of Michigan's race-based admissions policies, affirmative action in higher education, and beyond, is still very necessary. The paper claims that while facts and figures can be distorted and false, what is right, that being equality in education and life for all, must be upheld.

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"In June 2003, the Supreme Court upheld the use of affirmative action at the University of Michigan and among places of higher education overall. A group of Caucasian students from Michigan had sued the school, claiming that affirmative action laws at the school that admitted certain numbers of minority students were actually race quotas. Race-based quotas would have gone against the federal affirmative action laws; affirmative action is allowed, but quota-based systems of admitting minority students are not. While the writer feels this court ruling is just, much of what the writer has read since has been very disturbing. When talking of minority students and college, lots of facts and figures are often tossed around, such as test scores and percentages of those who graduate."

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