This site presents diverse opinions regarding Affirmative Action topics. Rather than taking a singular pro or con position, offers many different voices to the debates surrounding the issues of affirmative action. This site provides scholars, students, and the interested public with articles, theoretical analyses, policy documents, current legislative updates, and an annotated bibliography of research and teaching materials. In this report, the University of Michigan has brought together a team of leading scholars to serve as its experts in establishing the compelling need for diversity in higher education. Their research in the fields of history, sociology, education, economics, psychology, and law confirm that the use of race in higher education admissions is not only constitutional, but of vital importance to education and society.
Reports address legal issues and major cases.
Research from the business sector is also provided. This study by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University reports findings that learning in an environment with ethnically and racially diverse students enhances the educational experience of law students. The report draws data from surveys conducted with law students at highly selective institutions and presents research on the ways that diversity positively affects student learning. This study measures the educational benefits of diversity. Data from this in-depth empirical analysis show that students educated in diverse classrooms learn to think in deeper and more complex ways, and are better prepared to become active participants in a pluralistic, democratic society.