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Kidder, William C. – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2020
This policy brief synthesizes research on enrollment, graduation and career success for traditionally underrepresented students, the benefits of diverse learning environments including campus racial climate, and the need to increase diversity in UC professional and graduate schools to better serve the health and wellbeing of all Californians. This…
Descriptors: State Legislation, State Policy, Educational Policy, College Students
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Ward, Kelly Marie; Zarate, Maria Estela – Review of Higher Education, 2015
This paper examines the relationship between campus racial climate and graduate student attitudes about the benefits of diversity. Grounded in the campus racial climate frameworks proposed by Hurtado, Carter, and Kardia (1998) and Milem, Chang, and Antonio (2005), the authors build a case for documenting how student attitudes about diversity may…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Research Universities, Educational Environment
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Hughes, Sherick; Thompson Dorsey, Dana N.; Carrillo, Juan F. – Educational Policy, 2016
Justice Goodwin Liu reexamined seminal affirmative action in higher education legal cases beginning with the landmark 1978 case, "Regents of the University of California v. Bakke" and leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 decision in "Gratz v. Bollinger." Liu argued that the "Bakke and Gratz" lawsuits were…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Higher Education, Court Litigation, Disproportionate Representation
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1995
Contains articles on the black experience in higher education, including affirmative action issues, enrollment trends at both black and Ivy League colleges, black appointments in higher education favoring men and other gender issues, and blacks in college coaching. State- and school-specific articles concerning segregation, black leadership in…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Athletic Coaches, Black Colleges, College Faculty
California State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. – 1991
This is a summary report of a community forum conducted in Berkeley, California on July 18, 1989 on occurrences of bigotry and violence on college campuses in California. Twenty-five representatives of community groups, universities, federal agencies, and community organizations appeared to present their perspectives. Observations on campus…
Descriptors: Administrators, Affirmative Action, Campuses, Civil Rights
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Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor – Journal of Multicultural Social Work, 1999
Racial relations in California, projected to have parity between white and non-white populations by 2050, illustrates the challenges of an increasingly multiracial society in policy areas such as affirmative action, bilingual education, and immigration reform. A new paradigm is needed that goes beyond the current black-white model to encompass…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Blacks