Poll: 69 Percent Say Need for Affirmative Action In College Admissions Will End
SAN FRANCISCO
Most Americans agree that in 25 years, colleges and universities should no longer need to look at an applicant’s race to make sure there is racial and ethnic diversity on campus, a new poll finds.
Seventy percent of respondents said they agree with Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who wrote in June that although the Constitution allows race to be a factor in college admissions now, there should be no need for that consideration in a quarter-century.
The survey for the American Bar Association (ABA) also found 88 percent of respondents think the nation has made substantial or some progress toward eliminating discrimination in public schools since the Supreme Court’s 1954 desegregation ruling.