Around 1960’s, President Lyndon B. Johnson passed two Executive Orders which utilizes federal funds to increase racial minorities and women equity in higher education (Boykin 116). The affirmative action policies was very successful in increasing the diversity on campus, however, in 1971 the case of DeFunis v Odegaard tried to challenge it. DeFunis sued the University of Washington Law School because he was rejected to the school even though he was more qualified than the minority students who were admitted. Another similar case was the case of Bakke and the University of California. Bakke, too, was not admitted to the University of California at Davis for the same reason as DeFunis. DeFunis’s case did not made a difference but with Bakke’s case the court system ruled that although race could be consider, it is not constitutional to have a set quota for
Around 1960’s, President Lyndon B. Johnson passed two Executive Orders which utilizes federal funds to increase racial minorities and women equity in higher education (Boykin 116). The affirmative action policies was very successful in increasing the diversity on campus, however, in 1971 the case of DeFunis v Odegaard tried to challenge it. DeFunis sued the University of Washington Law School because he was rejected to the school even though he was more qualified than the minority students who were admitted. Another similar case was the case of Bakke and the University of California. Bakke, too, was not admitted to the University of California at Davis for the same reason as DeFunis. DeFunis’s case did not made a difference but with Bakke’s case the court system ruled that although race could be consider, it is not constitutional to have a set quota for