Strengthening affirmative action programs on all campuses is crucial for ensuring equal access to higher education. Students should explore their admissions processes as well as the various affirmative action programs that may or may not be institutionalized on campus, such as student-of-color weekends, high school visits, and summer enrichment programs. Also, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling that upholds affirmative action in higher education, attacks on programs promoting equal opportunity continue to occur.
Proposal 2, a proposed constitutional amendment that will be on the Michigan ballot on November 7, is ground zero in our country's fight to protect affirmative action. The initiative would ban affirmative action in the state's higher education system as well in public contracting and employment. Students nationwide continue to be a driving force behind the fight to defeat this initiative. It is vital that students help alert us to threats to affirmative action on their campuses as well as be informed and prepared to defend it.
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