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Newman, Christopher B. – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2016
Purpose: Underrepresented groups have fought for equal access to higher education, which spurred the development of "minority" initiatives. However, the assault on affirmative action and race-based initiatives have led many universities to retreat toward more all-encompassing "diversity" initiatives.…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation, Engineering Education
Giancola, Jennifer; Kahlenberg, Richard D. – Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, 2016
The admissions process used today in America's most selective colleges and universities is a classic case of interest group politics gone awry. Nobody champions or fights for smart, low-income students. The result is an admissions process reduced to a series of "preferences." Taken together with other widely-used admissions practices,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Access to Education, Merit Scholarships, Colleges
Gentsch, Kerstin – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation illustrates how admission policies shape access to postsecondary education. Evidence comes from two sectors, each with a distinct type of admission system: highly selective institutions that practice holistic admission (chapters 2 and 3) and less selective public four-year colleges that use admission thresholds (chapter 4). The…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Educational Policy, Access to Education
Goldstein Hode, Marlo; Meisenbach, Rebecca J. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2017
Legal decisions about affirmative action in higher education do more than impact how admissions policies are structured. The discourse produced in these decisions structures how race is talked about, understood, and enacted in the context of higher education and beyond. However, critique of affirmative action rhetoric in the legal realm tends to…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, Discourse Analysis, Whites
Sulé, V. Thandi; Winkle-Wagner, Rachelle; Maramba, Dina C. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2017
Using critical discourse analysis, this study assesses reader comments to newspaper articles on the "Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin" Supreme Court case. The Fisher case challenges the consideration of race in the college admissions process at UT. Findings show that this racial equity practice was framed as being antithetical to…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, College Admission, Admission Criteria, School Policy
Thompson Dorsey, Dana N.; Venzant Chambers, Terah T. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2014
In this article we extend Bell's work on interest convergence by using Harris' work on whiteness as property to articulate a cycle of interest convergence, interest divergence, and imperialistic reclamation, or convergence-divergence-reclamation (C-D-R, pronounced "cedar"). We then apply the C-D-R cycle lens to the evolution of federal…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Race, Admission Criteria, College Admission
Hill, Christopher; Cheong, Kee-Cheok; Leong, Yin-Ching; Fernandez-Chung, Rozilini – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
Transnational education, primarily at the tertiary level, has been growing rapidly, bringing with it high hopes and expectations of benefits to institutions in the countries of origin and destination. However, these potential benefits come with a set of challenges that must be overcome. These challenges include the need to reconcile the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Case Studies
Waters, Harold Davon – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation explores the controversial issues surrounding affirmative action in higher education. Are anti-affirmative action ballot initiatives in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by restructuring the political process of minorities in such a way that places special burden on their ability to secure…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Affirmative Action, Higher Education, Elections
Alger, Jonathan R. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2013
This invited commentary provides a response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case of "Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin" (2013). The author addresses the question regarding whether the newest decision about the use of affirmative action in higher education admissions raised the bar with respect to the legal doctrine of…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Affirmative Action, Student Diversity, Federal Courts
Ledesma, Maria C. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
This article revisits the University of Michigan's 2003 affirmative action cases, "Grutter v. Bollinger" and "Gratz v. Bollinger." Through the aid of critical textual analysis and critical race theory, the author looks back at the predominant narratives that framed the challenge to, and defense of, race-conscious affirmative…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, State Universities, Critical Theory
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2015
This is the 13th paper in the Association of Governing Boards (AGB's) series summarizing federal and state public policy issues affecting higher education. Governing boards, institutional and university-system leaders, and senior staffs will find it useful for board discussions and retreats and in formulating institutional responses to these…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Educational Finance
McGann, Matthew L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Relatively few students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are enrolled in the most selective American colleges and universities. To improve enrollment, scholars have suggested that college admission offices provide these low SES students an admissions advantage, also known as class-based affirmative action. This study examined to what degree…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Selective Admission, First Generation College Students, Low Income Groups
Garces, Liliana M. – Educational Policy, 2013
During its 2013-2014 term, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of Proposal 2, a ballot measure that amended Michigan's state constitution to ban the consideration of race in admissions at public postsecondary institutions. This article outlines the legal questions that have emerged in the case--Schuette v. Coalition to…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Court Litigation, State Legislation, College Admission
Garces, Liliana M.; Cogburn, Courtney D. – American Educational Research Journal, 2015
Guided by a bottom-up policy implementation framework, this study draws from semi-structured interviews of 14 campus-level administrators charged with implementing diversity policy at the University of Michigan to investigate how an affirmative action ban (Proposal 2) influenced their efforts in support of racial/ethnic diversity at the…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Administrators, College Admission, Affirmative Action
Cokley, Kevin; Obaseki, Victor; Moran-Jackson, Karen; Jones, Leonie; Vohra-Gupta, Shetal – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
The challenges for increasing opportunities and college access for black students typically focus on the traditional barriers related to academic preparation, the racial gap in standardized test scores, and dropping out of high school. While these challenges remain, new and emerging challenges to college access are also important to discuss. They…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, College Bound Students, African American Students, Access to Education