Race, Class, and College Access: Achieving Diversity in a Shifting Legal Landscape

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dc.contributor.authorEspinosa, Lorelle L.en
dc.contributor.authorOrfield, Garyen
dc.contributor.authorGaertner, Matthew N.en
dc.date.accessed2017-10-13en
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-16T19:54:12Zen
dc.date.available2018-07-16T19:54:12Zen
dc.date.issued2015-07-21en
dc.description.abstractHeadlines surrounding the consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions are often incomplete and ill-informed, promoting polarization and deflecting attention from practices that promote racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity in higher education. As colleges and universities seek to educate an increasingly diverse American citizenry and achieve the associated educational aims, it is imperative that postsecondary leaders, policymakers, researchers, and members of the media better understand the work and challenges facing institutions in this current legal climate. This report attempts to broaden that understanding and further much-needed dialogue on how institutions can best respond to a shifting policy and legal landscape at a time when access to postsecondary education has never been more vital and our American citizenry never so diverse. We examine contemporary admissions practices at four-year colleges and universities across a wide range of selectivity in the context of recent legal challenges to race-conscious admissions, including the pending U.S. Supreme Court case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAmerican Council on Educationen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Documents/Race-Class-and-College-Access-Achieving-Diversity-in-a-Shifting-Legal-Landscape.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/84040en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherAmerican Council on Educationen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectUniversities and colleges--Admissionen
dc.subjectdiversity in higher educationen
dc.subjectaffirmative action programsen
dc.titleRace, Class, and College Access: Achieving Diversity in a Shifting Legal Landscapeen
dc.typeReporten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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