Supreme Court has ruled that it is legal for universities to consider race along with other factors in choosing students. Question Wording * Do you favor, oppose… allowing universities to increase the number of black and some Asian American students studying at their schools by considering race along with other factors when choosing students? Question Wording * Do you think affirmative action programs designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities, such as African Americans and some Asian groups like Cambodian Americans, on college campuses are a good thing or a bad thing?
Question Wording * Do you think affirmative action programs designed to increase the number of black and minority students on college campuses are a good thing or a bad thing? Question Wording * Do you favor or oppose affirmative action programs designed to help blacks, women, and other minorities get better access to higher education? However, rates of support among Asian Americans are influenced by the question framing and order/priming effects.Ģ016 AAVS * APIAVote/AAJC/AAPIData SurveyĢ016 CMPS * Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election SurveyĢ016 NAAS * Post-Election National Asian American Survey The tables below provide data from several surveys conducted in 2016, and show that in most cases, regardless of how the question is asked, Asian Americans are more likely to support than oppose affirmative action. This is our effort to go beyond the splashy media headlines, and place the spotlight on Asian Americans by focusing on their opinions of affirmative action.Ī common misperception is that Asian Americans oppose the use of race or ethnicity in college admissions. Yale now joins Harvard as under investigation by the Department of Justice.Īsian Americans are the center of the debate about affirmative action, and while there has been much media attention to the allegations of racial discrimination against them, there has been little research on Asian Americans’ attitudes toward affirmative action. Departments of Justice and Education have announced that they will investigate allegations that Yale University illegally uses race in its admissions decisions to discriminate against Asian American applicants. BY JANELLE WONG, JENNIFER LEE, AND VAN TRAN
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