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Diversity Challenged: Evidence on the Impact of Affirmative Action

Authors: Gary Orfield, Michal Kurlaender (editors)
Date Published: January 01, 2001

In the courts and in referenda campaigns, affirmative action in college admissions is under full-scale attack. Though it was designed to help resolve a variety of serious racial problems, affirmative action's survival may turn on just one question--whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in deciding whom to admit to colleges and universities.

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Harvard Education Publishing Group, Copyright © 2001
ISBN 1-891792-02-4

About the Book

In the courts and in referenda campaigns, affirmative action in college admissions is under full-scale attack. Though it was designed to help resolve a variety of serious racial problems, affirmative action's survival may turn on just one question--whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in deciding whom to admit to colleges and universities. Diversity Challenged is designed to address that question.

This book explores what is known about how increasing minority enrollment changes and enriches the educational process. In chapter after chapter, researchers and policymakers discuss substantial developing evidence showing that diversity of students can and usually does produce a broader educational experience, both in traditional learning and in preparing for jobs, professions, and effective citizenship in a multiracial democracy. The evidence also suggests that such benefits can be significantly increased by appropriate leadership and support on campus. Diversity may be challenged on college campuses today, but the research and evidence in this book shows how diversity works.

Table of Contents

  • "Student Diversity and Higher Learning" by Neil L. Rudenstine
  • "A Policy Framework for Reconceptualizing the Legal Debate Concerning Affirmative Action in Higher Education" by Scott R. Palmer
  • "Diversity and Affirmative Action: Evolving Principles and Continuing Legal Battles" by Scott R. Palmer
  • "Maximizing the Benefits of Student Diversity: Lessons from School Desegregation Research" by Janet Ward Schofield
  • "Is Diversity a Compelling Educational Interest?: Evidence from Louisville" by Michal Kurlaender and John T. Yun
  • "The Positive Educational Effects of Racial Diversity on Campus" by Mitchell J. Chang
  • "Linking Diversity and Educational Purpose: How Diversity Affects the Classroom Environment and Student Development" by Sylvia Hurtado
  • "The Impact of Affirmative Action on Medical Education and the Nation's Health" by Timothy Ready
  • "Racial Differences in the Effects of College Quality and Student Body Diversity on Wages" by Kermit Daniel, Dan A. Black, and Jeffrey Smith
  • "Increasing Diversity Benefits: How Campus Climate and Teaching Methods Affect Student Outcomes" by Jeffrey F. Milem
  • "Faculty Experience with Diversity: A Case Study of Macalester College" by Roxane Harvey Gudeman
  • "Reflections on Affirmative Action: Its Origins, Virtues, Enemies, Champions, and Prospects" by Paul M. Gaston
 
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