Argument: Affirmative action helps create diverse learning environment

Support

• “Enacting Diverse Learning Environments: Improving the Climate for Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Higher Education. ERIC Digest.” Hurtado, Sylvia – Milem, Jeffrey – Clayton-Pedersen, Alma – Allen, Walter. Retrieved 10.2.07 – “One key to enacting diverse learning environments lies in understanding and developing programs and policies to improve the campus climate for racial/ethnic diversity, which involves understanding the environment from the perspectives of members from different racial/ethnic backgrounds, creating opportunities for improved race relations that permeate the classroom and extracurricular lives of students, and realizing the educational benefits of diverse learning environments for students who will need to be prepared to meet the demands of a complex, diverse society.”