Ethical Issues in the Academic Environment
Running head: Affirmative Action and College Admission
Affirmation Action and College Admission
Is it Ethical?
University of Phoenix
April 17, 2008
Abstract
Affirmative action deals with various segments of segregation and/or equal opportunity. This paper will with affirmative action in relation to higher education 's admissions and enrollment. In respect to this topic this paper will touch on where the line is to be drawn between affirmative action 's being ethical in the academic environment.
Affirmative Action and College Admission: Is it Ethical?
The debate over admissions policies in universities centers around three alternatives: (1) race-based preferences; (2) class-rank plans, admitting the top students in each high school; and (3) economic affirmative action for the disadvantaged. Affirmative action is a policy that seeks to address discrimination through active measures to ensure equal opportunity and is viewed in higher education as either ethical or unethical (dictionary, 2008).
What is Affirmative Action?
For forty five years affirmative action has been both praised as well as criticized as a solution to racial inequality. President Kennedy was the first to introduce the term affirmative action in 1961 as a way of redressing discrimination that had continued even with the civil rights laws and the guarantees within the constitution (Brunner, B., 2007).
One of the first times this policy can be seen taken in to effect in a higher education system was in 1950 after the Sweatt v. Painter and Hopwood case; a case that challenged The University of Texas School of Law. The end result was “…the justice of the United States Supreme court ordered the integration of the university’s law school and graduate school” (Russell, 2000, p. 507). Since this case, and most prominently in the last decade, affirmative action in public universities’ recruitment, admissions, and financial aid policies have undergone tremendous changes.
The main focus
Affirmation Action and College Admission
Is it Ethical?
University of Phoenix
April 17, 2008
Abstract
Affirmative action deals with various segments of segregation and/or equal opportunity. This paper will with affirmative action in relation to higher education 's admissions and enrollment. In respect to this topic this paper will touch on where the line is to be drawn between affirmative action 's being ethical in the academic environment.
Affirmative Action and College Admission: Is it Ethical?
The debate over admissions policies in universities centers around three alternatives: (1) race-based preferences; (2) class-rank plans, admitting the top students in each high school; and (3) economic affirmative action for the disadvantaged. Affirmative action is a policy that seeks to address discrimination through active measures to ensure equal opportunity and is viewed in higher education as either ethical or unethical (dictionary, 2008).
What is Affirmative Action?
For forty five years affirmative action has been both praised as well as criticized as a solution to racial inequality. President Kennedy was the first to introduce the term affirmative action in 1961 as a way of redressing discrimination that had continued even with the civil rights laws and the guarantees within the constitution (Brunner, B., 2007).
One of the first times this policy can be seen taken in to effect in a higher education system was in 1950 after the Sweatt v. Painter and Hopwood case; a case that challenged The University of Texas School of Law. The end result was “…the justice of the United States Supreme court ordered the integration of the university’s law school and graduate school” (Russell, 2000, p. 507). Since this case, and most prominently in the last decade, affirmative action in public universities’ recruitment, admissions, and financial aid policies have undergone tremendous changes.
The main focus
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