Affirmative Action and Equal Education

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This paper examines how statistical data on affirmative action programs in American institutions of higher learning seems to suggest that affirmative action policies have helped to increase cultural and racial diversity on college campuses. It looks at how minority students have made significant gains in approaching representative populations at American colleges and universities. It also explores how current affirmative action policies do not substantially assist low-income minority students in attaining admission to college and how affirmative action programs that consider only minority status as a factor in determining admission do not benefit low-income minority students.

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"Statistically, gender may also play a role in minority utilization of American higher education. According to the American Council on Education (2002), African American and Hispanic females attend colleges and universities at a higher rate than African American and Hispanic males. The last twenty-five years has also seen an increase in the population of white females attending college (American Council on Education, 2002). The gender gap in college attendance for minorities is significant in that affirmative action would seem, on the surface, to be more successful in drawing female minority populations to American colleges and universities than it is in drawing male minority populations. Whatever the answer may be to the question of unsymmetrical gender statistics concerning minority enrollment at institutions of higher learning, the result is the same: lack of true diversity within the educational institution's population."

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