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Miramontes, Jessica Rachel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand by reviewing the current empirical literature the leadership trajectory and pathways of women of color in leadership roles within higher education institutions and to identify a change model approach that can be used as an implementation model across different types of higher education…
Descriptors: Career Development, Females, Minority Groups, Higher Education
Yanning Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In Chapter 1, we study the allocation of homogeneous positions under affirmative action policies where some positions are reserved for underrepresented groups on a "minimum guarantee" basis. Each individual has a merit-based score and may be eligible for multiple reserves. When an individual counts towards each of the reserves that she…
Descriptors: Theories, Affirmative Action, Minority Groups, High Schools
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Sulé, V. Thandi; Winkle-Wagner, Rachelle; Maramba, Dina C.; Sachs, Abigail – Review of Higher Education, 2022
Through a critical discourse analysis of online comments to a "New York Times" newspaper article about "Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College," this study explores how public comments about affirmative action offer insight into larger racial discourses about college admissions. Findings…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Advantaged, Power Structure, Discourse Analysis
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Lisa R. Brown; Marissa Molina – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court, on June 29, 2023, issued a ruling in the case of STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE. The decision was anxiously interpreted as an end to race-based Affirmative Action. However, insufficient attention has been given to their discussions, holding that race was an underinclusive…
Descriptors: Social Media, African American Students, Activism, Ethnicity
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Adriel A. Hilton; Sheena Howard; Crystal J. Bryant – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were created to provide educational opportunities for African Americans when other educational pathways were closed or restricted. These higher education institutions with the assistance of the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau, churches and philanthropists, continue to…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Educational History, African Americans, Equal Education
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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
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Johnston-Guerrero, Marc P.; Zhao, Kai – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2022
As a fast-growing population in US. society, Asian Americans, particularly Chinese Americans, have started to engage more actively and amplify their presence in the recent legal challenges to affirmative action in college admissions. In order to get a deeper understanding of how US.-based Chinese view affirmative action, we conducted a textual…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Asian American Students, Chinese Americans, Computer Mediated Communication
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Endo, Rachel – Action in Teacher Education, 2022
This autoethnographic cross-case study articulates a set of field-tested strategies, focusing on how White-dominated teacher-preparation programs (TPPs) could recruit a greater number of teacher educators who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) by actively designing, implementing, and modeling equity-conscious recruitment practices.…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Teacher Education, Recruitment, Social Justice
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Mabel, Zachary; Campbell, Kathryn Peltier – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2023
An expected national ban on the consideration of race in college admissions will threaten the racial and ethnic diversity of students at selective colleges unless these colleges fundamentally alter their admissions practices. This report finds that selective colleges barred from considering race and ethnicity in their admissions decisions may be…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Race, College Admission, Selective Admission
Mariah Jamison – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explored the challenges and barriers of women of color participation in administrative roles of higher education. Women of color tend to hold positions that are marginal in higher education organizations, lacking authority and influence while placing them in positions to not be influential in change or decision making. However, it is…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Minority Groups, Race, Ethnicity
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Ward, LaWanda W. M. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2021
Anti-affirmative action legal discourse about U.S. higher education within selective institutions race-conscious admissions encompasses co-opted civil rights aims for racial equity in education that maintains white supremacy. Racially progressive efforts to include historically racially minoritized applicants of color have been met with unfounded…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Admission, Educational Discrimination, Reverse Discrimination
Nelson, Stephen J. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2022
The Supreme Court is taking up affirmative action at colleges and universities for the sixth time in 50 years. In that litany, an early case was the University of California vs. Bakke. Bakke complained about being denied admission to the university's medical school because seats were guaranteed for minority applicants, thus barring the door to him…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, College Admission, Racial Bias
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Windle, Joel Austin; Fonseca Afonso, Érica – Critical Studies in Education, 2022
This paper seeks to identify strategies for anti-racist higher education, drawing on scholarship that locates structural racism in global and local centre-periphery relations. We first examine how the centre-periphery divide has been identified and challenged in anti-racist intellectual and political movements, focusing on exchanges and solidarity…
Descriptors: Racism, Social Justice, Inclusion, Higher Education
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Bennett, Pamela R.; Lutz, Amy – Harvard Educational Review, 2022
In this research article, Pamela R. Bennett and Amy Lutz offer new hypotheses about how state bans on affirmative action affect application decisions based on students' beneficiary positions vis-à-vis affirmative action and evaluate them for black, white, Latino, and Asian American students separately. They posit that bans discourage applications…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Ethnicity, College Applicants, Public Colleges
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Melis Muradoglu; Sophie H. Arnold; Aashna Poddar; Adam Stanaland; Duygu Yilmaz; Andrei Cimpian – Grantee Submission, 2024
Women and people of colour are underrepresented in physics in many parts of the world, to the detriment of the field. How do academics' beliefs about the role of 'brilliance' in career success contribute to these representation gaps, and what can be done to address them?
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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