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Bakst, Daren – Student Aid Transcript, 2000
Examines the implications of court cases challenging the legality of affirmative action policies of college and university financial aid programs. Explains five exceptions to requirements that such programs be race-neutral. These exceptions are: when aid is for disadvantaged students, authorized by Congress, to remedy the effects of past…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Educational Policy
Bernal, Elena M.; Cabrera, Alberto F.; Terenzini, Patrick T. – 2000
This study examined whether replacing race-based affirmative action admissions programs in higher education institutions with class-based programs would continue to assist minorities yet have the added benefit of helping poor and working class whites. Three National Center for Education Statistics longitudinal databases were examined to assess the…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Admission, Desegregation Methods, Educational Discrimination