Sentences with phrase «campus affirmative action»

In the wake of recent challenges to campus affirmative action policies have come new criticisms of the tests.

Not exact matches

Peter Lau, who directs CSU Sacramento's affirmative action office says there's a big difference in hiring patterns between CSU Sacramento and the research - focused University of California campus where he worked 2 years ago.

The study's chief author Daniel Koretz and his colleagues used a simplified model of the University of California admissions process and real test scores to examine the impact of attempts to roll back affirmative action in postsecondary admissions on eight California campuses.

The book emphasizes the contradictions, moral conundrums, and tensions on campus related to affirmative action and diversity, and how these vary across racial and national lines.

But this argument ignores the declines in racial diversity on campus that have taken place after bans on affirmative action and the real - world consequences that these declines have for students of color.»

This framing tends to fuel what Warikoo calls «the diversity bargain,» in which white students support affirmative action as long as black and Latino students on campus do not form their own organizations and friend groups, and whites do not feel overlooked through «reverse discrimination» when they apply for fellowships, jobs, and graduate school.

Indeed, colleges and universities are even frequently evaluated on the racial, geographic, and socioeconomic diversity of each incoming class of students, and affirmative action policies in admissions are based on the rationale that the presence of campus diversity enriches the learning environment.

«The research in Diversity Challenged shows that affirmative action policies have major benefits not only in overcoming the history of exclusion of minorities, but also in creating a richer educational experience for all students and injecting new ideas and understandings into discussions, debates and research on campus,» said Gary Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.

The Supreme Court may have ruled in Fisher v. University of Texas to uphold affirmative action in college admissions — but that decision won't signal the end of campus conversations about race and diversity.

But, how do they feel about diversity and affirmative action once they actually get to campus?

Second, white students expect black and Latino students on campus — all of whom are assumed to have benefited from affirmative action — to have had a particular life experience that will contribute to the diverse learning environment.

Wehby received an Affirmative Action Award from the Development Center at Vanderbilt University for promoting disability awareness on campus and was named as an Outstanding Educator by the Peabody Roundtable.

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.

Using administrative data from the UC from before and after the ban on race - contingent admissions policies, we present evidence that UC campuses changed the weight given to SAT scores, grades and family background characteristics after the end of affirmative action, and that these changes were able to substantially (though far from completely) offset the fall in minority admissions rate after the ban on affirmative action.

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