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Affirmative action in higher education has been a focus of increasingly serious controversy in recent years. Part of the trouble lies within institutions of higher education themselves, where there is frequently a conflict between women and minorities, on the one hand, pressing for more vigorous enforcement of affirmative-action policies and, on the other, vigorous opposition by some (but by no means all) white male faculty members to the enforcement of affirmative-action plans. Part of the trouble—and probably the most serious part—stems from the cumbersome and inept federal enforcement of affirmative action in relation to higher education.
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Gordon, M.S. (1977). A National Policy for Affirmative Action in Higher Education. In: Melnick, V.L., Hamilton, F.D. (eds) Minorities in Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5851-1_22
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