Given that my research topic for this quarter is diversity at SCU and the Multicultural Center (MCC), I thought it would be interesting to do some more background on diversity in the United States during the time that the MCC was created. Was there a specific movement in the US that created a need for diversity centers on college campuses?
When doing some further research, I found out that in 1986 the Immigration Reform and Control Act was passed that allowed any undocumented immigrants immediate legal residency with an option to pursue full citizenship after five years.
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This granted 2.7 million immigrants a legal citizenship which resulted in an increase of their influence in American culture. This in turn also resulted in an increase of college attendance by immigrants.
Due to this increase of legal immigrants of different ethnic backgrounds on college campuses, it makes a lot more sense that an organization like the MCC would be created in order to preserve the rights of these students on campus.
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This information will add a lot of good background to my paper since I was previously lacking on a reason why the MCC was created. Now I can go into much more depth about this reform in my final paper and figure out some more affects that this change had on diversity at Santa Clara.