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Birnbaum, Matthew; Yakaboski, Tamara – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2011
Women represent an increasingly large majority of undergraduate students, currently comprising 57% of total U.S. undergraduate enrollment. To address this gap between women and men undergraduates, some institutions have developed admissions policies to yield more men. This study examines the key issues the U.S. Supreme Court might use when…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Administrative Policy, Policy Analysis, Admission Criteria
Tapia, Richard A. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
A controversial theory much in the news lately claims that affirmative action is often unfair to the very students it is intended to help. Called the "mismatch" theory, it suggests that underrepresented minority students are more likely to leave science, math, and engineering when, because of affirmative action, they attend colleges for which they…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Academic Achievement, Affirmative Action, Minority Groups
Millward, Jessica – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
When the author proposed a spring course on major topics in African-American history, drawing a large enrollment was her chief concern. She had previously taught the course under a different title at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a campus with a sizable African-American presence among students and faculty members. She now teaches…
Descriptors: United States History, African American History, Slavery, Affirmative Action
Knoll, Bente; Ratzer, Brigitte – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
"Gender-into-teaching" is the first Austrian project to develop strategies on how to implement gender topics at a technical university. This project can really be qualified as a model for other universities and as unique in Austria. Up to now, there are many more males in higher-level positions in the university hierarchies. The--very…
Descriptors: Females, Affirmative Action, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
Modica, Marianne – Multicultural Perspectives, 2012
The "Whites as victims" motif in conversations about race has been well documented in recent decades. When discussing affirmative action hiring policies, a common belief expressed by Whites is that people of color have been permitted to progress unfairly at the expense of harder working Whites. Whites using this discourse see themselves…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Race, Church Related Colleges, Affirmative Action
Gaertner, Matthew N. – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2011
In November, 2008, Colorado and Nebraska voted on amendments that sought to end race-based affirmative action at public universities. In anticipation of the vote, Colorado's flagship public institution--The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU)--explored statistical approaches to support class-based affirmative action. This paper details CU's…
Descriptors: Race, Universities, Income, Overachievement
van Wyk, Berte – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
In this article I contend that we cannot divorce affirmative action from issues about race and racism. Further, debates on affirmative action have to acknowledge the power of words/concepts/definitions and how they can be constructed and used for the purposes of domination or liberation. I argue that, in debating affirmative action, we have to…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Race, Affirmative Action, Reflection
Bowman, Nicholas A. – Review of Educational Research, 2010
In light of rapid demographic shifts and legal challenges to affirmative action in the United States, the issue of diversity on college campuses is of increasing importance. Most syntheses of research on diversity interactions and educational outcomes have focused on attitude change, such as reductions in prejudice or racial bias. Despite the…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Affirmative Action, Cognitive Development, Social Bias
Charles, Camille Z.; Fischer, Mary J.; Mooney, Margarita A.; Massey, Douglas S. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
The use of race-sensitive criteria in admissions continues to be controversial, and critics have leveled three basic charges against it. For one, opponents say the practice constitutes reverse discrimination, lowering the chance of admission for better-qualified white students. They also contend that it creates a mismatch between the skills of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Criticism, Program Effectiveness, Affirmative Action
Keller, Josh; Hoover, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
The University of California has adopted changes to its undergraduate admissions policy that will enlarge its applicant pool and drop the requirement that students take the SAT Subject Tests. The policy is the most significant change in the university's admissions practices in at least a decade. It will increase the number of California…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Affirmative Action, Minority Groups, College Admission
Longitudinal Examination of the Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites across the College Experience
Todd, Nathan R.; Spanierman, Lisa B.; Poteat, V. Paul – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2011
This longitudinal investigation adds to the growing body of scholarship on the psychosocial costs of racism to Whites, which refer to the consequences of being in the dominant position in an unjust, hierarchical system of societal racism. We examined how White students' affective costs of racism (i.e., White empathy, guilt, and fear) changed…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Psychologists, Student Diversity, Counseling Psychology
Spriggs, Linda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The California Constitution was amended by Proposition 209 and now prohibits its public institutions from considering race, sex, color, national origin, or ethnicity. This puts San Francisco African American high school graduating seniors at a great disadvantage, especially in light of the ever persistent "academic achievement gap"…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, African American Students, Qualitative Research, Black Colleges
Hemson, C.; Singh, P. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
A study of academic staff at a South African university of technology used questionnaires and interviews to understand perceptions and experiences related to inclusion and exclusion. Taking critical race theory as the theoretical framework, the study revealed high levels of anger amongst staff of different racial identities. Expressions of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Questionnaires, Interviews, Phenomenology
Alon, Sigal – Social Forces, 2010
Claudia Buchmann, Dennis Condron and Vincent Roscigno's study, titled "Shadow Education, American Style: Test Preparation, the SAT and College Enrollment," demonstrates that vigorous use of expensive test preparation tools, such as private classes and tutors, significantly boosts scores on standardized exams such as the SAT or ACT. This…
Descriptors: Social Class, Racial Differences, Affirmative Action, Tutors
Frisancho Robles, Veronica C.; Krishna, Kala – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
Affirmative action policies in higher education are used in many countries to try to socially advance historically disadvantaged minorities. Although the underlying social objectives of these policies are rarely criticized, there is intense debate over the actual impact of such preferences in higher education on educational performance and labor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), Higher Education, Social Class