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Direct linkLehmuller, Peter; Gregory, Dennis E. – NASPA Journal, 2005
Affirmative action as a policy to solve past racism has existed since the civil rights movement in the mid-twentieth century. Since its inception there has been controversy as to whether affirmative action can stand legal scrutiny. If it can, then under what circumstances and for what programs may it be used? Since the "Bakke" case in…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Racial Discrimination, Civil Rights, Postsecondary Education
