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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
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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
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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
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
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
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Austin, Ashley; Craig, Shelley L.; McInroy, Lauren B. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2016
Social work has professional and academic standards consistent with transgender affirmative education and practice. Nevertheless, a growing body of research suggests that transgender issues are largely absent from social work education, resulting in practitioners who are uninformed or biased against transgender issues. The present study expands…
Descriptors: Social Work, Sexual Identity, Affirmative Action, Mixed Methods Research
National Association of Scholars, 2021
The National Association of Scholars believes that higher education should gather scholars and students to cultivate excellence and pursue the truth, transmit the heritage of Western civilization to a new generation, prepare cultured and virtuous citizens, and train students for vocational success. American colleges and universities should embody…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Educational Finance
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Soler, Susanna; Prat, Maria; Puig, Núria; Flintoff, Anne – Quest, 2017
Gender policies in sports have expanded considerably in most countries in recent decades. Nevertheless, the implementation of these policies in sports organizations is by no means an automatic process. This article explores what happens when gender equity policies are applied in an university sports organization. Participatory action research over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Equal Education, Educational Policy
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Oyarzún, Juan de Dios; Perales Franco, Cristina; McCowan, Tristan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
Indigenous groups in Latin America face a double exclusion from higher education, with low levels of access to institutions and little acknowledgement of their distinctive cultural and epistemological traditions within the curriculum. This article assesses current policies in Mexico and Brazil towards indigenous populations in higher education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Higher Education, Access to Education
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Jaquette, Ozan; Curs, Bradley R.; Posselt, Julie R. – Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Many public research universities fail to enroll a critical mass of low-income and underrepresented minority (URM) students. Though founded with a commitment to access, public research universities face pressure to increase tuition revenue and to recruit high-achieving students. These pressures create an incentive to recruit nonresident students,…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Public Colleges, Research Universities, Racial Composition
Campaign for College Opportunity, 2018
The State of Higher Education in California is a series of reports by the Campaign for College Opportunity that provide comprehensive data on the current state of college access and completion for our state and what it means for our economy. This report analyzes the state of Latinx in California education. Specifically, this report reviews…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Hispanic American Students, Success, Enrollment Trends
Erwin, Ben; Thomsen, Jennifer – Education Commission of the States, 2021
Although diversity in higher education has continued to increase over the past 20 years, colleges and universities continue to enroll Black, Latinx and American Indian students in bachelor's programs at low rates; additionally, more selective institutions and high-demand fields of study are less likely to enroll these students, and they often are…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Higher Education, Minority Group Students, Student Diversity
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Bastedo, Michael N.; Howard, Joseph E.; Flaster, Allyson – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
Selective colleges and universities purport to consider students' achievement in the context of the academic opportunities available in their high schools. Thus, students who "maximize" their curricular opportunities should be more likely to gain admission. Using nationally representative data, we examine the effect of "maximizing…
Descriptors: College Admission, Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action
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Marshall, Joanne M.; Marsh, Tyson E. J. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2016
This case tells the story of a new principal who wants to lead inclusively by including people of all religious and non-religious beliefs. When she questions some of the existing practices in her school, she faces resistance from school members and from the community, who question her identity, her intentions, and her authority. The case is…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Religion
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