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Mission Incomplete: Affirmative Action Policies and Indiana University Bloomington's Minoritized Student Recruitment and Retention Programs
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Sharp, Sacha – American Educational History Journal, 2020
The purpose of this historical examination is to first understand the context of United States affirmative action legislation and its importance. It provides a spotlight on Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) during the civil rights movement and what led to the creation of policies that would forever impact the institutional makeup of IUB.…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Educational Policy, College Students, Minority Group Students
Examining the Paradox between Dismantling "De Jure" Segregation and Affirmative Action: Implications from Contemporary Higher Education Case Law
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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
The Administrator and Affirmative Action.
Hogges, Ralph – 1979
Current experiences and practices that exist in some colleges and universities that violate the Civil Rights Act and affirmative action legislation are discussed. Treatment of the average black, other minority, and women candidates as compared to the average white candidate is questioned in regard to staff recruitment, assignment to line as…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Students, Black Teachers, Civil Rights