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How Much Diversity Is Enough? The Curvilinear Relationship between College Diversity Interactions and First-Year Student Outcomes
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Bowman, Nicholas A. – Research in Higher Education, 2013
Recent legal challenges to race-conscious college admissions processes have called into question what constitutes a sufficient level of diversity on college campuses. Previous research on the educational benefits of diversity has examined the linear relationship between diversity interactions and student outcomes, but multiple theoretical…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, College Freshmen, College Admission, Longitudinal Studies