http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu Our current research topics related to college access include college admissions, affirmative action, financing, and diversity in higher education. daily 1 2009-12-16T16:52:26Z http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/losing-ground-school-segregation-in-massachusetts The time has come for Massachusetts to get serious about dealing more effectively with its diversity. Because the nonwhite populations have historically been small and there is a general white attitude that the state is progressive and has done enough, the issues are often ignored. No publisher crooks desegregation regional inequality boston resegregation integration residential patterns affirmative action metro inequality 2013-05-09T21:31:47Z Research Item http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/miles-to-go-a-report-on-school-segregation-in-virginia-1989-2010 Despite Virginia’s long history with school desegregation, little political attention has been paid to the growing multi-racial diversity of the state’s enrollment and rising levels of isolation for its African American and Latino students. The report covers the past two decades and is the first to thoroughly explore trends in the state, its major metro areas and largest school divisions in the years since many of its districts were released from court order to desegregate. No publisher crooks diversity educational inequality civil rights regional inequality metro inequality school desegregation campus diversity minority education desegregation education resegregation magnet schools 2013-03-13T15:06:10Z Research Item http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/educational-delusions-why-choice-can-deepen-inequality-and-how-to-make-schools-fair University of California 330 pages, 9 illustrations, 11 tables ISBN 978-0-520-27473-0 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-520-27474-7 (paper) No publisher crooks diversity resegregation minority students affirmative action campus diversity books segregation desegregation 2013-02-08T21:53:10Z Research Item http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/college-access/affirmative-action/the-salience-of-racial-isolation-african-americans2019-and-latinos2019-perceptions-of-climate-and-enrollment-choices-with-and-without-proposition-209 The study compares the ways in which California’s ban on affirmative action harms the University of California in comparison to the University of Texas and leading private institutions in terms of both the climate on campus for nonwhite students and the lack of success in recruiting top-ranked applicants of color. No publisher russman affirmative action 2012-10-09T17:37:01Z Research Item http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/college-access/affirmative-action/brief-of-american-social-science-researchers-in-fisher-v.-university-of-texas American social scientists from all parts of the country present a summary of research findings to the Supreme Court as it prepares to hear a key case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, on the future of integration in America’s colleges this October. No publisher russman affirmative action 2012-08-09T20:23:33Z Research Item http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/legal-developments/legal-briefs/statement-on-the-development-of-the-brief-of-american-social-science-researchers-in-fisher-v.-university-of-texas We hope that this brief will be of use to other parties participating in all American colleges and to the justices and the clerks themselves. Hundreds of experts have participated in this important effort to communicate what is known about the obstacles to and the conditions for achieving successfully diverse campuses that can best prepare young Americans to live and work in an extremely multiracial future. No publisher crooks affirmative action college admissions campus diversity 2012-08-09T22:52:23Z Research Item http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/college-access/affirmative-action/california-a-case-study-in-the-loss-of-affirmative-action Notwithstanding the initial commitment to educate “all portions” of the state’s youth, underrepresented minorities (URMs) have never achieved equal representation in the UC and their representation has declined since the mid-1990s just as their share of the state’s population has burgeoned. No publisher crooks affirmative action college admissions education higher education 2012-08-09T15:13:20Z Research Item