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Haslerig, Siduri; Bernhard, Laura M.; Fuentes, Marcia V.; Panter, A. T.; Daye, Charles E.; Allen, Walter R. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2013
The use of affirmative action admissions practices in U.S. colleges and universities has been a source of contentious public debate and legal battles since the policy's inception in the 1960s. The legal challenges to race-conscious admissions will continue for the foreseeable future, including renewed court scrutiny on specific universities'…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Law Students, Classroom Environment, Qualitative Research
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Gottfredson, Nisha C.; Panter, A. T.; Daye, Charles E.; Allen, Walter F.; Wightman, Linda F. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2009
Controversy surrounding the use of race-conscious admissions can be partially resolved with improved empirical knowledge of the effects of racial diversity in educational settings. We use a national sample of law students nested in 64 law schools to test the complex and largely untested theory regarding the effects of educational diversity on…
Descriptors: Law Students, Race, Law Schools, Structural Equation Models