Good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen and your honor, I stand here before you today as a representative with the Regents of the University of California. I am here today to talk today to all of you about the importance of diversity on college campuses and give a cultural background while also giving some examples from a diversity statement and why we should be able to consider race as a factor of getting admitted to a collgege campus and that a certain percentage of students should be diverse and this is based partly on diversity statements.
One major reason that we should be able to let kids into college based on race is the fact that all campuses should have a diverse campus since diversity helps improve the educational experience and opens us up to more cultures. By having mixed groups of students, students are able to come together and are able to work together and learn different perspectives of life. It’s also very important that students are exposed to a wide range of different people so that students are exposed to these different perspectives. Diversity statements have said that based on inclusion
Affirmative action should be used to let people into college as it also will make sure that no groups of people are underrepresented and that all groups are fairly represented within the educational experience. By still using affirmative action when admitting kids to college this has couteracted discrimination and helps create a wide and diverse population and with this, affirmative action gives them a fair chance and consideration at higher education. Affirmative action has also been over a long time helping with social mobility and socio-economic statuses and changes in family status for all college students and their respective families.
Another major factor with still considering Affirmative Action and race as a factor for admission is that diversity is a key part of our society and schools have been still considering race as a factor to boost their diverse population. Schools are building and creating diversity statements and affirmative action is just as important as the diversity statements. Some schools' diversity statements including the University of California has said that: “diversity aims to broaden and deepen both the educational experience and the scholarly environment.” Diversity statements also encouraged schools to continue to use affirmative action and cite equal inclusion in selection in all groups of people.
In conclusion, Affirmative Action should still be used and has been helpful for society and because of affirmative action. Creating a diverse campus is an integral part of the education system and being exposed to different cultures is also important for communication and most of this starts with college age kids and with affirmative action this can be continued. This is also the case that really popularized the term diversity as it became more common after this case had happened and it has still been an important part of society and education and with affirmative action no group will ever go unrepresented again in higher education.
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https://ppaccone.medium.com/the-case-of-uc-davis-v-bakke-9f465534c0
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/affirmative-action/
https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_regents.html
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