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Peer reviewedBaez, Benjamin – Journal of Higher Education, 2004
The recent legal challenges to affirmative action in higher education illustrate that moral arguments, such as that affirmative action compensates for past wrongs, no longer justify it. So proponents of affirmative action have changed strategies and now use social science to prove the necessity of affirmative action. This article situates the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Sciences, Affirmative Action, Student Diversity
