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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED143092 AUTHOR: Young, D. Parker
TITLE: Affirmative Action in Higher Education.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1977
NOTE: 8 p.; Chapter 15 of EA 009 780; For related
documents, see EA 009 780-797
AVAILABILITY: Not available separately; See EA 009 780
ABSTRACT: Stated as a legal constitutional issue the
question is, Do affirmative action programs that embody
some form of preferential treatment of selected groups
resulting in possible quotas constitute reverse
discrimination in violation of basic constitutional rights?
This issue represents one of the most fundamental questions
for our society that the United States Supreme Court will
ever decide. That Court has yet to rule on that issue.
Therefore, higher education must look for guidance to the
lower federal as well as state courts as these tribunals
continually interpret statutes, administrative guidelines,
and institutional policies and actions. It is the purpose
of this paper to review selected pertinent court decisions
regarding affirmative action. Among the cases discussed are
DeFunis v. Odegaard, Henson v. University of Arkansas,
Alevy v. Downstate Medical Center, Bakke v. Regents of the
University of California, Flanagan v. President and
Directors of Georgetown College, and Cramer v. Virginia
Commonwealth University. (Author/IRT)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Constitutional-Law; Higher-Education;
Racial-Discrimination; Sex-Discrimination; Supreme-Court
Litigation
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Admission-Criteria; *Affirmative-Action;
*Court-Litigation; *Law-Schools; *Medical-Schools
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