these other admission tactics could be used. I will attempt to provide a non-biased view from both sides of the argument. Hopefully, you will gain a little more knowledge upon this issue and formulate your own opinions as how to handle the matter.
Affirmative action occurs whenever an organization goes out of its way to make sure there is no discrimination against people of color, against white women, against people with disabilities, or against veterans. If it weren't for affirmative action, there would be a major lack of minority presence in different positions throughout the working industry. With cases, like Brown vs. Board of Education, Plessy vs. Ferguson, there would not be any footholds in modern society for minorities to advance and attain higher education. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 put the policy of prevention against minorities in the federal programs, public facilities, and the workplace. Affirmative action is geared towards making business, government, and higher education institutions resemble America; in that this land is very diverse and so must the various establishments within this country. Affirmative action is still necessary because schools with a high minority concentration are not given a proportionate amount of effective new educators(new teachers with the minimum education standards) as opposed to wealthier, and predominantly majority white schools, which receive highly educated professors. This factor, in accordance with past and present educational injustices, will keep the policy of affirmative action in existence as long as these types of injustices are performed against minorities.
Affirmative action can be viewed as the medium-termed enhancement to assist in the accelereation of the long-term solution to the unfair educational isolation of Afro-Americans. This isolation is due to discrimination not only within the college admissions process but also in the work environment: the glass ceili...