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LA Times: Arguments against affirmative action in higher ed based on fear

UC BerkeleyAn opinion piece published in the LA Times from UC Riverside Associate Professor Karthick Ramakrishnan breaks down the arguments for and against SCA5, a controversial bill that would place a constitutional amendment on the California ballot allowing state colleges to consider race as one criteria for admissions (photo by Nina Stawski).

The measure has already passed the Senate and is now in the Assembly and has sparked heated debate in the Asian American community where opponents have argued the measure discriminates against Asians.

Its an argument that Ramakrishnan sees is based on “group fears about potentially losing admission seats, in particular at the University of California.”

On opposite sides right now are national groups like 80-20 and Chinese language newspapers who fear a big drop in enrollment in the Asian American student population at the University of California.

On the other side are civil rights groups within the Asian American community who see the value of diversity in education. Polls taken in 1996 and 2012 by the National Asian American survey find most Asian Americans support affirmative action.

Ramakrishnan breaks down how the facts could sway opinion one way or the other in the LA Times. He also takes a closer look at the argument that SCA5 will hurt enrollment of Asian Americans at California’s top public universities.

 

 

 

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