Chilling Admissions: The Affirmative Action Crisis and the Search for Alternatives
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1891792008
ISBN 13
9781891792007
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Publication Year
1998
Publisher
Pages
142
Subject
Universities and colleges--United States--Admission. Universities and colleges--Admission--Law and legislation--United States. Minority college students--Recruiting--United States. Affirmative action programs--United States.
Abstract
The essays in this volume represent the work of the leading scholars of affirmative action in higher education, and place the current crisis on campus in its larger context of historical discrimination and the legal battle for educational equity. After a generation of efforts to reverse the historic exclusion of minorities from their campuses, U.S. colleges and universities are facing a frontal attack on the programs, policies, and commitments born of these efforts. Chilling Admissions documents and examines their struggle to foresee the consequences of abandoning affirmative action in admissions and financial aid, and to devise viable alternatives for promoting and preserving campus diversity.
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