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John C. Scott's Analysis

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The pursuit of social justice in the contemporary university through equal access has been recognized as an increasingly widespread phenomenon. In his study of historical university missions, John C. Scott describes a democratization mission, originating in early America, that combats elitism in academia by offering “equal educational opportunit[ies]” to serve and educate the general citizenry (15). Scott notes that, historically, equal access to higher education was only offered to white male citizens, though this inequality has been largely eliminated through the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century (18). Acknowledging that “over 20% of all [American] adults 25 years of age and older currently possess a baccalaureate or higher”,

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