Age Discrimination In Colleges

If you are one of those people out there who thinks that age discrimination on the basis of being too young is “not a thing”, you are highly mistaken. There are nearly 8,000 under-18s at university - up from less than 5,000 in 2002, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency by the Guardian show. Many cases that involve students under the age of 18 being rejected or discriminated against in colleges do exist. Nevertheless, these cases are not well known.
In this part of my research project, I am going to prove that underaged students are in fact discriminated against and I will extend my research to analyze what is being done, in terms of laws and amendments to fight that injustice and protect the rights of young students in colleges.
The bill reversed the minimum age requirement for college admissions which allowed Kelsey Caetano-Anollés to be admitted to UUIC's undergraduate program at 14 year-old. The recent year of this bill shows that age discrimination of young students in Universities was still legal five year ago. This situation cannot be acceptable if the students meets the criterias to be admitted, and age is part of those official listed criterias. My point is that it is unfair to treat a student differently if the program did not previously state an age group eligibility. In my opinion, this bill was in no way enough to prevent the age discrimination that happens on college campuses after the student gets admitted. My initial questions were, why does age change the way people think about each other in colleges and elsewhere? When and how did this age discrimination start? Why do most people think that eighteen is the appropriate age for university
I was so invested in that topic primarily because I lived and still living through the hardship that it addresses and wanted to find someone to blame. However, further into my research when I started looking into the database about age discrimination, I realized that it was less about me and more about understanding how age discrimination works. That’s when I found the “The Implications of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendments of 1978 for Colleges and Universities”, which is an article by Laura Christian Ford discussing what brought about the acts and amendments in colleges and Universities. Ford is known for her many books that discussing a wide range of issues including education, purity, liberty and other contemporary social issues. Her writing is of very good quality and I believe that what she claimed in her article about age discrimination was credible and worthy of