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Tracing Roots of Attitudes toward Race and Affirmative Action among Immigrant Chinese Americans: Learning from Undergraduate International Students
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Lien, Pei-te – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2022
Immigrant Chinese Americans made the recent polling news by being the least racially tolerant in comparison to other Asian American groups over redistributive issues such as college admissions. Rather than treating Chinese immigrants as of monolithic interests and ultimately unassimilable, this study seeks to provide a more nuanced understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese Americans, Immigrants, Foreign Students
Rising Mercury, Rising Hostility: How Heat Affects Survey Response
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Cohen, Alexander H.; Krueger, James S. – Field Methods, 2016
Recent social scientific research has examined connections between public opinion and weather conditions. This article contributes to this literature by analyzing the relationship between high temperature and survey response. Because hot temperatures are associated with aggression, irritation, and negativity, such conditions should lead to the…
Descriptors: Heat, Surveys, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Climate
K-12 School Diversity and Social Cohesion: Evidence in Support of a Compelling State Interest
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Mikulyuk, Ashley B.; Braddock, Jomills H. – Education and Urban Society, 2018
Despite existing research that demonstrates the benefits of racial diversity in education, the Court has become increasingly disinclined to allow the use of race or ethnicity in education policy targeted to increase race/ethnic diversity, absent a compelling state interest. The debate over the merits of educational diversity has almost exclusively…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Diversity (Institutional), Metropolitan Areas, Social Integration
Educational Interventions to Raise Awareness of White Privilege
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Case, Kim A.; Rios, Desdamona – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2017
Diversity courses in higher education often seek to deepen understanding of the systematic advantages associated with dominant group membership, such as white privilege. Most pedagogical studies of privilege awareness examine the impact of full-length diversity courses on white privilege awareness (Case, 2007; Kernahan & Davis, 2009; Lawrence…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Practices, Consciousness Raising, Whites
The Role of Persuasive Arguments in Changing Affirmative Action Attitudes and Expressed Behavior in Higher Education
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White, Fiona A.; Charles, Margaret A.; Nelson, Jacqueline K. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2008
The research reported in this article examined the conditions under which persuasive arguments are most effective in changing university students' attitudes and expressed behavior with respect to affirmative action (AA). The conceptual framework was a model that integrated the theory of reasoned action and the elaboration likelihood model of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Intention, Affirmative Action, Path Analysis
Affirmative Action, the Academy and Compromised Standards: Does Affirmative Action Lower Standards in University Hiring, Tenure and Promotion?
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Hanks, Lawrence J.; Sullivan, Jas; Spencer, Sara B.; Rogers, Elgin – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
The literature opposed to affirmative action in hiring, granting tenure and promotion in the university claims that it lowers standards. However, anecdotal evidence suggests that in the decades prior to the institutionalization of affirmative action in the Academy, hiring, tenure and promotion standards were quite lax--resembling an "old boys…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Personnel Selection, Tenure, Promotion (Occupational)