ERIC Number: EJ1405820
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0038-0407
EISSN: EISSN-1939-8573
The Anti-Affirmative Action Avalanche: The Rise of Underrepresented Minority Enrollment at For-Profit Institutions
Sociology of Education, v97 n1 p37-57 2024
The study of affirmative action bans suffers from focusing on the ivory tower as the site for the impacts of affirmative action bans. Prior literature on affirmative action bans has missed the bigger picture, failing to see that less glamorous schools have also been impacted by the bans. This article fully fleshes out the impacts of affirmative action on postsecondary education by their level of selectivity (Barron's Admissions Competitiveness Index) and sector (private, public, and for profit) from a merged data set (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and the Current Population Survey) spanning 1991 to 2016. The results of a differences-in-differences analysis find that a small group of for-profit institutions with very large enrollments became a destination for underrepresented minority students in the wake of affirmative action bans.
Descriptors: For Profit Colleges, Affirmative Action, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation, Declining Enrollment, College Students, Political Influences, Political Issues
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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