{"id":1447,"date":"2017-09-26T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T03:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2017-09-26T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T03:00:46","slug":"academic-ethics-is-diversity-the-best-reason-for-affirmative-action-chroniclevitae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/academic-ethics-is-diversity-the-best-reason-for-affirmative-action-chroniclevitae\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Ethics: Is \u2018Diversity\u2019 the Best Reason for Affirmative Action? | ChronicleVitae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/920\/files\/2017\/09\/full_vitae-diversity-flag.jpg\" alt=\"Full vitae diversity flag\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: James Fryer for The Chronicle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision in the 1978\u00a0<em>Bakke<\/em>\u00a0case \u2014 in which the court invalidated the racial quotas on admission at the medical school of the University of California at Davis \u2014 &#8220;diversity&#8221; has dominated American higher education\u2019s thinking about affirmative action.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the opinion that gave diversity that canonical status was supported by just one Justice, the late Lewis Powell, whose vote decided the case. While strict racial quotas were not permissible, universities had, in Justice Powell\u2019s view, a compelling interest in the diversity of their student population, since that contributed to the educational experience an institution offered<a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclevitae.com\/news\/1907-academic-ethics-is-diversity-the-best-reason-for-affirmative-action?cid=VTEVPMSED1\"> [more].<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclevitae.com\/news\/1907-academic-ethics-is-diversity-the-best-reason-for-affirmative-action?cid=VTEVPMSED1\">Academic Ethics: Is \u2018Diversity\u2019 the Best Reason for Affirmative Action? | ChronicleVitae<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: James Fryer for The Chronicle Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision in the 1978\u00a0Bakke\u00a0case \u2014 in which the court invalidated the racial quotas on admission at the medical school of the University of California at Davis \u2014 &#8220;diversity&#8221; has dominated American higher education\u2019s thinking about affirmative action. Ironically, the opinion that gave diversity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-other","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}