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Fair, Bryan K. – 1997
This book is a defense of remedial affirmative action and an assertion that it is a policy that is a fair and workable solution to the chronic problem of racial caste in the United States. The personal narrative of the author, eighth of 10 children born to a single mother on public assistance, is combined with the discussion of American history…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Opportunities
Duffy, Elizabeth A.; Goldberg, Idana – 1998
This book traces the development of competitive admission and financial aid policies at a selected group of 16 liberal arts colleges in Ohio and Massachusetts over the period 1955 to 1994. Exploring the way institutional decisions reflect and respond to broad demographic, economic, political, and social forces, the book considers the challenges…
Descriptors: College Admission, Data Interpretation, Enrollment Projections, Enrollment Trends
Canadian Education Association, Toronto (Ontario). – 1993
This guide describes the admission criteria utilized by faculties of education in 50 postsecondary institutions in Canada, arranged by province. For each entry the following information is provided: a listing of the teacher education programs, selection requirements and procedures for various types of degree programs; statistics on 1992-93…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admissions Officers, College Admission, College Applicants
Goldman, Alan H. – 1979
Defining reverse discrimination as hiring or admissions decisions based on normally irrelevant criteria, this book develops principles of rights, compensation, and equal opportunity applicable to the reverse discrimination issue. The introduction defines the issue and discusses deductive and inductive methodology as applied to reverse…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Competence
Sparks, Linda, Comp. – 1993
This selective bibliography of approximately 900 items spans works written over several decades, and focuses on all aspects of undergraduate college admissions in the United States. References are included on admission to community colleges, 4-year colleges, and universities. Citations are from the education literature and include books, book…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admissions Officers, Annotated Bibliographies
D'Souza, Dinesh – 1991
This book addresses the issue of angry campus confrontations over issues of race, gender, and ethnicity, and more broadly, the dilemma of the college's and university's ability and desire to attain the goals of liberal education while also desiring to be "politically correct." It is noted that student activists have split the university…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Affirmative Action, Colleges, Conflict
Thernstrom, Abigail, Ed.; Thernstrom, Stephan, Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers includes: "The Demography of Racial and Ethnic Groups" (Stephan Thernstrom); "Immigration and Group Relations" (Reed Ueda); "What Americans Think about Race and Ethnicity" (Everett C. Ladd); "Wresting with Stigma" (Shelby Steele); "Residential Segregation Trends" (William…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, American Indians, Blacks
Hegener, Karen C., Ed. – 1981
Data gathered from nearly 95 percent of America's higher education institutions report on unusual characteristics, innovative programs, and other features of the colleges for the year of 1979 unless specified as fall 1980. All information is given in list form. The word "colleges" is used to mean all undergraduate degree-granting institutions.…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Campuses, College Admission, College Choice
Moll, Richard – 1979
Truths and myths involved with student admission to Ivy League colleges are revealed by a director of admissions whose experience includes admission work at Vassar, Bowdoin, Harvard and Yale. Several basic concepts are offered as fact: most private colleges in America today are not highly selective; many colleges pose as being more selective than…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Admissions Counseling, Codes of Ethics
Synnott, Marcia Graham – 1979
The origins, history, and final demise of discriminatory admissions policies at Harvard, Princeton and Yale are examined. It is reported that by the early 1920's the Big Three racial and religious quotas were fully operative in response to the influx of Jews, Catholics, and other new groups that threatened the hegemony of the old-stock Americans…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action
Bailey, Robert L.; Hafner, Anne L. – 1978
The changing role of admission policies and practices as higher education institutions deal with the problems of miniority acess and admissibility is examined in this book. Sections dealing with admission requirements, academic prediction, and major problems in admission practices provide background information on the workings of student…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrative Policy, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action
Sindler, Allan P. – 1978
The public policy and legal issues surrounding preferential admissions of minorities in higher education and the politics and human drama of the controversy are reviewed and analyzed in this book. Focus is on the court cases of Marco DeFunis against the University of Washington law school and Allan Bakke against the University of California…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Admission Criteria, College Admission
Lundell, Dana B., Ed.; Higbee, Jeanne L., Ed.; Duranczyk, Irene M., Ed.; Goff, Emily, Ed. – Center for Research on Developmental Education and Urban Literacy, University of Minnesota, 2007
This monograph consists of 13 chapters featuring a diverse range of perspectives centralizing student standpoints about their experiences in higher education and access programs. Chapter 1, "Student Perspectives on College Readiness" (Jeanne L. Higbee), provides the results of a survey of developmental education students regarding college…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Writing (Composition), Academic Achievement
Slocum, Alfred A., Ed. – 1978
The complete record of the litigation in Alan Bakke v. The Regents of the University of California is contained in these six volumes. Included are all the pleadings, briefs, and arguments reproduced in full text except for minor editing of the oral arguments and data pertaining to the proof of service affidavits of truths. Volume One contains the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), Affirmative Action
DeNeef, A. Leigh, Ed.; Goodwin, Craufurd D., Ed. – 1995
This book's 29 chapters by various authors are designed to provide immediately useful advice for college and university teachers concerning current higher education issues, employment, teaching and advising, funding research, publishing research, and academic communities and administrations, The chapters are: "A Taxonomy of Colleges and…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Freedom, Beginning Teachers, College Faculty
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