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The Far Reach of the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan: Consideration of Professional School Degrees
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Templeton, Toni; White, Chaunté L.; Horn, Catherine L. – Journal of Higher Education, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to document the indirect effects of the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan on professional school degrees awarded and to propose the far reach of the law as an alternative argument in support of race-conscious admissions policies challenged under the strict scrutiny standard. Designed around the two tests of strict scrutiny,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action
Racial Politics, Resentment, and Affirmative Action: Asian Americans as "Model" College Applicants
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Moses, Michele S.; Maeda, Daryl J.; Paguyo, Christina H. – Journal of Higher Education, 2019
This article uses philosophical analysis to clarify the arguments and claims about racial discrimination brought forward in the recent legal challenges to affirmative action in higher education admissions. Affirmative action opponents have argued that elite institutions of higher education are using negative action against Asian American…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Asian Americans, Racial Discrimination, College Applicants
Interest Convergence or Divergence? A Critical Race Analysis of Asian Americans, Meritocracy, and Critical Mass in the Affirmative Action Debate
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Park, Julie J.; Liu, Amy – Journal of Higher Education, 2014
We use the Critical Race Theory frameworks of interest convergence and divergence to critique the anti-affirmative action movement's co-option of Asian Americans. Past discussions of affirmative action and Asian Americans mainly concentrate on how Asian Americans are affected by affirmative action, whether positively or negatively. We demonstrate…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, Criticism, Affirmative Action
What Discourse on the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan Says about Accountability for Diversity
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Maramba, Dina C.; Sulè, V. Thandi; Winkle-Wagner, Rachelle – Journal of Higher Education, 2015
At the heart of the longstanding debate of addressing racial inequities in higher education is an argument about whether race should be a factor in admissions decisions. One argument is that institutions should be held accountable for diversity through external policies like affirmative action. Alternatively, there is the position that…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Accountability, Diversity (Institutional)
Access and Equity for African American Students in Higher Education: A Critical Race Historical Analysis of Policy Efforts
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Harper, Shaun R.; Patton, Lori D.; Wooden, Ontario S. – Journal of Higher Education, 2009
Higher education has been characterized as "one of the greatest hopes for intellectual and civic progress in this country. Yet for many Americans, however, it has been seen as part of the problem rather than the solution" (Boyer, 1997, p. 85). Some have acknowledged that higher education is a public good through which individual participation…
Descriptors: African American Students, Higher Education, Race, Access to Education
The Study of Diversity: The "Knowledge of Difference" and the Limits of Science
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Baez, Benjamin – Journal of Higher Education, 2004
The recent legal challenges to affirmative action in higher education illustrate that moral arguments, such as that affirmative action compensates for past wrongs, no longer justify it. So proponents of affirmative action have changed strategies and now use social science to prove the necessity of affirmative action. This article situates the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Sciences, Affirmative Action, Student Diversity