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Kidder, William C. – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2012
One of the important arguments by critics of affirmative action is that it actually hurts the students it is supposed to help by subjecting them to the "stigma" of being admitted under policies explicitly seeking campus diversity. Such students, this theory argues, must feel embarrassed and uncomfortable as a result and would prefer to…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, African American Students, Race, Campuses
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2009
This timeline reflects some of the most significant legal and legislative milestones that have influenced higher education over the 25 years that "Diverse: Issues in Higher Education," formerly "Black Issues in Higher Education," has been in print. The legal battles have primarily involved the settlement of desegregation cases and the use of race…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Legislation, Politics of Education, Court Litigation
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Soudien, C. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
The purpose of this article is to attempt a surfacing of the assumptions and discourses surrounding the affirmative action debate in higher education in South Africa. The article draws attention to two dominant discourses--the first being that of the patriotic university, and the second being that of the global university. In terms of the first…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Affirmative Action, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
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Favish, J.; Hendry, J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
The article outlines how UCT's commitment to redress and diversity has officially guided the university's approach to admissions planning. In 2009 the Senate requested the Vice Chancellor to conduct a review of the admissions policy particularly to determine whether race continued to be an adequate proxy for disadvantage. This article analyses…
Descriptors: Universities, College Admission, School Policy, Race
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Schmidt, Clea; Block, Lee Anne – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2010
Analyzing school division employment policies from six Winnipeg school divisions and the Manitoba K-12 Action Plan for Ethnocultural Equity (MECY, 2006), we discuss implications for the integration of internationally educated teachers in K-12 schools. Findings suggest that the policies exhibit several major limitations in advancing IET…
Descriptors: Employment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Arar, Khalid; Haj-Yehia, Kussai – Higher Education Policy, 2010
This study explored reasons for the rapid increase in the number of Palestinian Arabs from Israel (PAI) studying higher education (HE) in Jordan. Four hundred and sixty PAI studying in Jordan answered a questionnaire assessing factors related to HE in both countries. Lenient admission requirements and cultural-language similarity explain Jordan's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, Arabs
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Fischer, Mary J. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2011
College campuses are among the most racially diverse settings in our segregated society. For many students, especially non-Hispanic whites, college represents the first time they have come into significant contact with members of other groups. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, this paper explores the effects of campus…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Student Attitudes, Racial Attitudes, Academic Standards
Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
This article discusses why rising fees for graduate programs at University of California campuses threaten to undermine growth of underrepresented minorities (URMs) in health-science and other professions. Dental student Hector Godoy easily relates to his patients at a University of California, Los Angeles clinic. Like many of them, Godoy never…
Descriptors: Health Occupations, Role Models, College Programs, Patients
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Grummell, Bernie; Devine, Dympna; Lynch, Kathleen – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2009
While there is extensive research on educational leadership and management, the selection of leaders has received comparatively little attention. This article examines how educational leadership is constructed through the selection process in the context of a qualitative study of Irish education. It highlights the tensions that can exist for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Personnel Selection, Qualitative Research
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Moses, Michele S.; Saenz, Lauren P. – Review of Research in Education, 2012
This chapter examines the following central question: How do direct democratic ballot initiatives affect the public good? A second, related question is this: When voters collectively make policy decisions, what responsibilities do researchers have to contribute to informing public deliberation about the relevant issues? In an attempt to answer…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Voting, Participative Decision Making, Democracy
Hilton, Adriel A.; Green-Powell, Patricia A.; Joseph, Crystal L.; Knight, Linda G. – Online Submission, 2011
The purpose of this study was to discover the perceptions of Florida law school administrators on the impact of the OFI (one Florida initiative) and the addition of two MSI (minority serving institution) law schools on diversity in Florida's legal profession. This research explored the impact of Governor Bush's EO (executive order) on diversity…
Descriptors: Law Schools, Program Effectiveness, Affirmative Action, Administrator Attitudes
Sturgis, Ingrid – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
In President Barack Obama's most recent State of the Union address, technology figured significantly as part of his plan to increase the number of college graduates and reduce the cost of education. With concern that the United States is losing its competitive edge because it is not producing enough graduates and minority students are reportedly…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Universities, Distance Education
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Backes, Ben – Journal of Human Resources, 2012
Using institutional data on race-specific college enrollment and completion, I examine whether minority students were less likely to enroll in a four-year public college or receive a degree following a statewide affirmative action ban. As in previous studies, I find that black and Hispanic enrollment dropped at the top institutions; however, there…
Descriptors: Evidence, Affirmative Action, Minority Groups, Minority Group Students
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Higgs, P. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
In the light of transformational discourses in higher education in South Africa, it has become necessary to pose the question--what is a university? Such a question requires that the idea of the university, as well as its role in society be reflected upon critically. This author contends that much of present day transformational discourse in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, Race, Racial Relations
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Saenz, Lauren P.; Moses, Michele S. – American Journal of Education, 2010
This article offers a qualitative content analysis of the print news media coverage of Proposal 2, an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative that passed on November 7, 2006. Our purpose was to determine what type of information on the initiative and affirmative action was available to the public. Results indicate that little substantive…
Descriptors: Democracy, Affirmative Action, News Reporting, Content Analysis
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