Research Paper

In my research paper, I examined the idea of affirmative action in higher education, how it's been implemented, and the arguments for and against it-- especially interesting in terms of how the Supreme Court has supported it or refuted it at the University of Michigan in 2003.

I concluded that an examination of the ideas behind the implementation of affirmative action in higher education and an assessment of how it affects society leads one to the conclusion that overall, affirmative action’s effect on society has and will continue to be positive because it minimizes the disparities in equality between white society and socially constructed racial minorities.

I also thought that though the importance of considering the practical ways to fix racial inequalities in higher education should not be diminished, the support for affirmative action in higher education that holds the most gravity is the simple idea that it is morally right, because minority students in present day America on the whole generally begin their education on a lower level and receive a lower quality education than white students, which leads to fewer economic and intellectual opportunities in life. The only way to reform this problem as quickly as possible is with the direct intervention of the group in charge: privileged white society.