The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education is a longer
version of the three Clark Kerr Lectures on Higher Education delivered on September 30 …

In The Qualified Student Harold S. Wechsler focuses on methods of student selection used
by institutions of higher education in the United States. More specifically, he discusses the …

In an interview about her decision to challenge the University of Texas's (UT) consideration
of applicant diversity in its admissions process, Abigail Fisher explained that she was" …

Inequality in American education is not only about race and class. Rather, it is also about
risk: the systematic way in which parents and caregivers deal with the hazards and …

Objectives The purpose of this project is to assess (1) presence of anger toward Asian
Americans “taking jobs,” and (2) whether stereotypes, feelings of competitive threat, and …

The founding moment in the Anglo-American approach to equality of opportunity in
education was the early to mid 1960s, a time of relatively high social mobility, with the …

Despite efforts by universities to promote racial/ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic diversity,
college students continue to report discrimination. In two studies, we examined the …

This exploratory study examined white undergraduate students'(a) racial attitudes towards
Asian Americans,(b) principled policy attitudes toward affirmative action, and (c) self-interest …

Many saw the 2008 election of Barack Obama as a sign that America had moved past the
issue of race, that a colorblind society was finally within reach. But as Marianne Modica …

Affirmative action debates remain hotly contested across America. Given how the topic is
presented in respective disciplines and core textbooks, students are often misinformed …