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Direct linkBaker, Rachel B.; Solanki, Sabrina M.; Kang, Connie – Journal of Higher Education, 2023
Conceptualizing and measuring trends in segregation in higher education is difficult as both vertical and horizontal sorting is prevalent and patterns vary across racial groups. In this paper, we measure various trends in racial segregation in California for 20 years. We find significant sorting by race both between and within sectors of higher…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Educational Trends, Racial Segregation, Educational History
Download full textAkhtari, Mitra; Bau, Natalie; Laliberté, Jean-William – Texas Education Research Center, 2018
Race-based affirmative action policies are widespread in higher education. Despite the prevalence of these policies, there is little consensus on how affirmative action policies affect students either before they reach college or after they matriculate into college. This study provides new evidence on the benefits of affirmative action policies…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Racial Factors, Minority Group Students, Disproportionate Representation
Garces, Liliana M.; Cogburn, Courtney D. – American Educational Research Journal, 2015
Guided by a bottom-up policy implementation framework, this study draws from semi-structured interviews of 14 campus-level administrators charged with implementing diversity policy at the University of Michigan to investigate how an affirmative action ban (Proposal 2) influenced their efforts in support of racial/ethnic diversity at the…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Administrators, College Admission, Affirmative Action
Maramba, Dina C.; Sulè, V. Thandi; Winkle-Wagner, Rachelle – Journal of Higher Education, 2015
At the heart of the longstanding debate of addressing racial inequities in higher education is an argument about whether race should be a factor in admissions decisions. One argument is that institutions should be held accountable for diversity through external policies like affirmative action. Alternatively, there is the position that…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Accountability, Diversity (Institutional)
Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Once again, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide on the contentious issue of Affirmative Action, and specifically the use of race in admissions decisions in public universities. Despite differences in the details, seasoned veterans of affirmative action debates are experiencing déjà vu. In this case, Abigail Noel Fisher claims overt racial…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, Racial Discrimination, College Applicants
Mattox, Kari Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Despite the precedent established in the "University of California Board of Regents v. Bakke," that race may be used as a factor in admissions policies at state institutions of higher education, state and federal court decisions were divided over whether the use of race in admissions decisions was a violation of the Equal Protection…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Courts, Comparative Analysis, Policy Analysis
