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3 pages in length. While greater racial diversity is, indeed, a viable objective to achieve within the environment of higher education, reaching such an objective by way of closing out other populations is not the way to attain such a goal. The preference that has been given to minority groups has considerably backfired, creating an unfavorable climate of reverse prejudice, as in the cases of Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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out other populations is not the way to attain such a goal. When affirmative action was first introduced, its primary purpose was to give minority groups the same --
or better -- chance as their white counterparts. What that meant for the academic world was if two entrance candidates were equally qualified on all levels, yet one was
a minority and the other was white, the minority would automatically be accepted. There are times, however, when an underqualified minority wins out over a qualified white student just
to meet the necessary quota. The reasoning behind this was that other races were viewed as getting the short end of the stick if they had to compete against
Caucasians. However, the preference that has been given to minority groups has considerably backfired, creating an unfavorable climate of reverse prejudice (Chang, 1997), as in the cases of Gratz
v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger. The cases that ultimately warranted this decision were filed back in 1997 by University of Michigan students who claimed they were denied entry to
the school because they were not minorities, even though their admission scores were well within acceptance range. This ruling - heralded as a "tremendous victory" (Peterson, 2003) by U
of Ms President Mary Sue Coleman - allows for colleges and universities to continue acting as though they are contributing to a more racially diversified academic community, when in reality
they are really preventing truly qualified students from gaining admission they so readily deserve. According to Coleman, the victory was won for: "...The University of Michigan, for all
of higher education, and for the hundreds of groups and individuals who supported us...A majority of the court has firmly endorsed the principle of diversity articulated by Justice Powell in
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