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Direct linkAnthony Tillman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Education is the value proposition that provides individuals the opportunity to become meaningful contributors to society, their community, and their immediate families. It is the calling card of personal achievement and individual intrinsic benefits. Education is about access and opportunity. Institutions continue to navigate strategies of access…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Socioeconomic Status, Student Diversity, Selective Admission
Download full textDouglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2018
This essay discusses the contentious events leading to the decision by the University of California's Board of Regents to end affirmative action in admissions, hiring and contracting at the university in July 1995. This controversial decision provided momentum for California's passage of Proposition 209 the following year ending "racial…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Politics of Education, Access to Education, Equal Education
Kidder, William C. – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2012
One of the important arguments by critics of affirmative action is that it actually hurts the students it is supposed to help by subjecting them to the "stigma" of being admitted under policies explicitly seeking campus diversity. Such students, this theory argues, must feel embarrassed and uncomfortable as a result and would prefer to…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, African American Students, Race, Campuses
