POLS 4050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Osgoode Hall Law School, Strict Scrutiny, Williams College

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 4050
• Professor: Jordi Diez

Document Summary

Although this paper is u. s centred, it is very useful for my research because it breaks down the arguments in favour of affirmative action bans and how abolishing affirmative action could benefit minority groups in some ways. However, this paper argues affirmative action is beneficial to society and colleges with affirmative action bans are extremely detrimental to the cause. This paper also ties into the (yifan, et al. ) article and discusses the role of the k-12 education system. This article claims and focuses on the sat scores, the mismatch hypothesis, and college equality as the main areas to focus on with affirmative action. I agree, i would like to focus my research on the mismatch hypothesis; unfortunately, this article does a poor job describing the relationship between their findings and the mismatch hypothesis. The data is also limited because it only focuses on graduation rates.