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Case, Kim A.; Rios, Desdamona – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2017
Diversity courses in higher education often seek to deepen understanding of the systematic advantages associated with dominant group membership, such as white privilege. Most pedagogical studies of privilege awareness examine the impact of full-length diversity courses on white privilege awareness (Case, 2007; Kernahan & Davis, 2009; Lawrence…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Practices, Consciousness Raising, Whites
Jaeger, Audrey J.; Mitchall, Allison; O'Meara, KerryAnn; Grantham, Ashley; Zhang, Jingjing; Eliason, Jennifer; Cowdery, Kelly – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2017
This study examined and enriched our understanding of the career choice process for doctoral students of color in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. In addition, it explored the challenges facing all doctoral students in STEM in understanding and making meaning of diversity as it relates to individual perspectives and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Race, Ethnicity, Career Choice
Slay, Kelly E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Highly selective public institutions affected by affirmative action bans have struggled to enroll Black students despite myriad attempts at alternative strategies. Bans likely shift university recruitment practices and shape both campus climate and portrayals of institutional commitment to diversity. Increasingly public racial incidents on college…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Decision Making, African American Students, College Environment
Katchanovski, Ivan; Nevitte, Neil; Rothman, Stanley – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Direct comparisons of American and Canadian faculty and students' views concerning issues of race, gender, and affirmative action in higher education are rare. The 1999 North American Academic Study Survey provides a unique opportunity to analyze the role of national and positional factors in faculty and student attitudes towards race, gender, and…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Gender Differences, Race, Teacher Attitudes
Kaufman, Michael J. – Cambridge University Press, 2019
In "Badges and Incidents," Michael J. Kaufman undertakes an interdisciplinary investigation of American education law and pedagogy. By weaving together the invaluable insights of law, education, history, political science, economics, psychology, and neuroscience, this book illuminates the ways in which the design of the American…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Rights, Equal Education, School Law
Frisancho, Veronica; Krishna, Kala – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
Using detailed data on the 2008 graduating class from an elite engineering institution in India, we evaluate the impact of affirmative action policies in higher education focusing on three issues: targeting, catch up, and mismatch. We find that admission preferences effectively target minority students who are poorer than average displaced…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Higher Education, Engineering Education, Educational Policy
Felicetti, Vera Lucia – International Education Studies, 2017
A training at Higher Education level needs, in addition to improve the skills specific in the area chosen, to develop a set of skills and/or personal attributes that make him or her more likely to succeed in the profession. In this context, this paper was developed and has the objective to identify the relationships between engagement,…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Affirmative Action, Minority Group Students, Access to Education
Pantea, Maria-Carmen – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
This qualitative paper explores Roma students' perceptions on the policy of assigning "special places" for Roma in Romania's universities. Findings suggest that Roma see themselves as occupying a precarious social space, concerned not as much to hide perceived merit violation but to handle (alleged) inadequacies given by their…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Minority Groups, Ethnicity, Social Bias
Moses, Michele S.; Saenz, Lauren P.; Farley, Amy N. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2015
The project we highlight in this article stems from our philosophical work on moral disagreements that appear to be--and sometimes are--intractable. Deliberative democratic theorists tout the merits of dialogue as an effective way to bridge differences of values and opinion, ideally resulting in agreement, or perhaps more often resulting in…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, Mixed Methods Research
Tabatadze, Shalva; Gorgadze, Natia; Gabunia, Kakha – Online Submission, 2020
This document is a report on the research which was designed to evaluate the affirmative action policy for ethnic minorities in Georgia. The mixed research methods were utilized in the study. Specifically, the following research methods were used: (1) Survey of 12th graders in non-Georgian schools; (2) Survey of the students in the One-Year…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Minority Group Students, High School Seniors
Cheong, Kee-Cheok; Hill, Christopher; Leong, Yin-Ching – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2016
Since gaining independence in 1957, the Federation of Malaya and now Malaysia has implemented education policies to broaden access, to unify an ethnically diverse population through a common curriculum and language, to enable the disadvantaged to catch up through affirmative action, and to build human capital as the country seeks to become an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Educational Objectives
Boykin, Tiffany Fountaine; Palmer, Robert T. – Journal of Negro Education, 2016
The racial diversification of America's higher education system has been at the forefront of legal argument for the last seventy-five years. Ground-breaking decisions birthed the inclusion of affirmative action policies in higher education after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In recent years, both the utility and constitutionality…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Racial Segregation, Affirmative Action, Higher Education
Alemán, Enrique, Jr.; Delgado Bernal, Dolores; Cortez, Eden – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2015
This article presents our conceptualization, initial creation and implementation of a university-school-community partnership, the Westside Pathways Project. We introduce our work in developing and sustaining this K-16 educational pathways partnership as one way of broadening the affirmative action discussion. By describing a model of…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, School Community Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
Childs, Porsha; Stromquist, Nelly P. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
Since 2001, Brazilian universities have been implementing affirmative-action policies to correct the racial, social and ethnic disparities in university admissions. An examination of the social-inclusion policies at three public universities in Brazil--the University of Brasilia, the Federal University of Bahia and the State University of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Academic Achievement, Predictive Validity, College Entrance Examinations
Page, Lindsay C.; Scott-Clayton, Judith – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015
Socioeconomic gaps in college enrollment and attainment have widened over time, despite increasing returns to postsecondary education and significant policy efforts to improve access. We describe the barriers that students face during the transition to college and review the evidence on potential policy solutions. We focus primarily on research…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Barriers, Educational Policy