In so many families, even in 2013, there are students graduating from high school this year and heading to college as the first member in their family to continue their education and strive for a degree. ... Even switching to community college from a 4-year university is a tough option for students, and the graduation rates at community college are even grimmer; the US Department of Education reports the official community college graduation rate is only at 18 percent, and if transfer students are included, it only rises to 40 percent, Jennifer Cotton explains. ... However, many of the situat...

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Many students live very segregated lives up until the time they start college. ... Students starting at a disadvantage need a boost, minority students start out at a disadvantage in their college or job application process. ... Affirmative action does not make it easy for students from a disadvantaged background to get into college; it merely makes up some of the difficulties. ... Colleges go out of their way to make sure that their student bodies contain athletes, political activists and musicians so that each student brings something different to the community. ... It is impossible for a col...

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Under this policy, colleges have been encouraged to take race and ethnicity into account for their admissions process. ... In addition, affirmative action helps colleges obtain a diverse student body, which supposedly has many educational benefits. ... Supporters of affirmative action use in college admissions will often stress the benefits of diversity among students in a campus. ... "Undoubtedly[,] there are other ways to better the education of law students aside from ensuring that the student body contains a critical mass of underrepresented minority students. ... Although a diverse stude...

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The 10 Percent Plan provides the top ten percent of students in poor schools the opportunity to go to many different colleges. ... The percentage of white students accepted by Berkeley totaled 36.8 percent. ... "The average grade point average for a rejected white student was 3.66 with an SAT score of 1142. ... These statistics demonstrate the reverse discrimination against white college applicants due to affirmative action. After you graduate from college, you will be putting in your application for a job that you went to college for. ...

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It ruled that the federal courts had authority over the segregation issue and that the integration of students should commence immediately. ... By the 1960's, violent acts were committed in response to the admittance of blacks to colleges and universities. Some states did not admit the black students but the federal government intervened. It resulted in the brutal attacks on the students and soldiers. ... Society started to accept different races and ethnicities more and the schools started to integrate students in order to unify them. ...

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It ruled that the federal courts had authority over the segregation issue and that the integration of students should commence immediately. ... By the 1960's, violent acts were committed in response to the admittance of blacks to colleges and universities. Some states did not admit the black students but the federal government intervened. It resulted in the brutal attacks on the students and soldiers. ... Society started to accept different races and ethnicities more and the schools started to integrate students in order to unify them. ...

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One factor that has affected many entering college in the last 30 years is the idea of affirmative action, where a race or a particular group of people receive preferential treatment over others. Many ethnic minorities, such as blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans, wouldn't have been in college if it hadn't been for the affirmative action plan.. ... The 489 students who applied checking either the "black" or "Hispanic" boxes were accepted 10.4% of the time, giving a total of 51 disadvantaged racial minorities. ... This has given a chance for both inner-city blacks and rural white...

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Edwin Bancroft Henderson, known as the grandfather of basketball, introduced the sport to his students in 1904. ... College basketball teams in the 1930s dominated the scene. ... In the spring of 1930, Lucille Townsend graduated from High School; from there she attended Bennett College. ... At most white colleges, the idea of varsity basketball clashed with the visions of ladylike gentility that they wished their students to embody, and competition was thus limited to intramurals, the faculty at many African American colleges held to a more expansive conceptualization of womanhood, one that co...

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Bledsoe, the narrator's college President, has to be one of the most influential characters. ... He constantly makes a mockery of the college founder's dream of lifting the veil of ignorance of black people. The narrator, who suspects that Bledsoe is keeping the veil in place to ensure that the students remain in the dark, is unfortunately greatly influenced by him. ... Washington, who is supposedly the founder of the narrator's college, Bledsoe portrays that there is a necessary behavior of black people in order to maintain support and approval from white America. ...

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("The Origins of Affirmative Action" by Marguita Sykes) This was now a concern that directly targeted the colleges and universities. ... The law school is ____ up to for highly qualified White students were not accepted into the law program but black, less qualified students were accepted. The undergraduate program allows additional points automatically to minorities or the college entrance applications. ... Supreme Court to rule recently in favor of the University in saying that colleges and universities had compelling educational reasons for seeking a diverse student body and ...

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By using lunch counter sit-ins, organizing into national networks like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and reaching into college campuses through the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Civil Rights Movement was able to bring together northerners and southerners, older and younger citizens and men and women to work for a single cause (Lawson et al, 1998, p. 21). ... Black women eventually earned college and graduate degrees and sought full time employment in higher rates than either black men or white women, while maintaining a community service ethic. ... She wa...

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Prospective students must reside within a particular school's district, meaning that blacks from underprivileged neighborhoods are forced to attend poorly-funded schools. ... Consequently, less blacks complete a high school diploma, or have less college preparatory courses if they do go to college. ... When Barack Obama addressed the NAACP in 2007, he raised the concern that, "more young black men languish in prison than attend universities and colleges across America." ...

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Neo-Racism When I walk around my campus, specifically when I wonder around the HUB (a common area for us college kids to eat, relax, study), it is hard for me to not notice the color line separating my peers. People are usually in the HUB advocating for people to join their sorority, fraternity or organization and some of those organization or groups of Greek life explicitly state they are seeking African Americans, Hispanics, or Irish students. ... Social engineering states that students need to be educated on our nation's history and on the history of the different cultures and races wi...

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Before affirmative action was created, a large majority of students in college were Caucasian and most employees of large corporations were Caucasians (Plous). But ever since affirmative action has come into the picture, the rate of minorities in college and in the business world has risen dramatically (Affirmative). ...

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Another example of preferential treatment of minorities is when students are seen as being admitted into academic institutions based solely on their race, despite that their academic score are drastically lower than standards. Along with this process comes the low regard for the minority student population, not much is done to try and help integrate the minority students. ... Personally, I have worked endlessly to get into the college of my choice. ...

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Black students could not attend the University of Miami or any of Florida's other state-supported colleges except Florida A & M University in Tallahassee. ... On May 17, 1954, the Court declared unanimously that the segregation of public-school students solely on the basis of race violated the Equal Protection principle of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. ... The extent to which Florida had delayed dealing with the question of desegregation can perhaps best be observed in the fact that it was in February of 1959, that the Dade County School Board finally assigned four black ...

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In school, Martin was a very intelligent and thriving student, he graduated from Booker T. Washington high school, doing good enough to skip 2 grades and graduate at 15 and finished college, top of his class at 19, getting a Bachelor of Divinity following it up with becoming a minister just like his father, preaching tolerance and the Christian belief of loving your neighbor. ...

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He was educated at a British missionary boarding school at Fort Hare University, from which he was expelled in 1940 for leading a strike with a fellow student. ... After attending grammar and high school locally, King enrolled in Morehouse College (also in Atlanta) in 1944. ...

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