The gutting of affirmative action is a 'clear and present danger' to equal education, critics say | CNN

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Ono said affirmative action provides the most immediate impact on diverse student enrollment.
65% : ""Affirmative action has been a beacon of hope for generations of Black students," Cole said in a statement Thursday.
55% : Zack Mabel, a researcher for Georgetown's Center for Education and the Workforce, said he expects the number of Black and brown students attending selective colleges nationwide will drop from the current 20% to about 16% without affirmative action in place.
53% : Blum and other critics of affirmative action have said college admissions should be based on equal standards and merit.
53% : Olufemi Ogundele Marlena Sloss/The Washington Post/Getty ImagesOlufemi Ogundele, associate vice chancellor of admissions & enrollment at UC Berkeley, said the university has struggled to achieve the same level of diversity it saw before affirmative action ended.
53% : But more Black students could be admitted to the highly ranked UC Berkeley if affirmative action was legal in the state, he said.
50% : Across the University of California system, Black enrollment fell dramatically after the state outlawed affirmative action in 1996.
49% : The gutting of affirmative action upends a long-standing precedent that has benefited disadvantaged Black and Latino students in higher education.
49% : Still, Black student enrollment dropped at flagship schools such as the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA after affirmative action ended.
45% : The challenges to achieving diversityAffirmative action was already banned in nine states, including in Michigan and California, and these states could be case studies of what is to come for the entire country, some experts say.
33% :Wisdom Cole, national director of the NAACP Youth & College Division, called the rollback of affirmative action a "dark day in America.
29% : Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion on affirmative action for the conservative majority, saying the Harvard and University of North Carolina admissions programs violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment because they failed to offer "measurable" objectives to justify the use of race.
23% : Colleges in Michigan, which banned affirmative action in 2006, and California, which banned the practice in 1996, have tried race-neutral approaches to affirmative action including more consideration of high school class rank and socioeconomic status in the admissions process.

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