A New Kind of Affirmative Action Can Ensure Diversity

Autor/in	Kahlenberg, Richard D.
Titel	A New Kind of Affirmative Action Can Ensure Diversity
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, (2012) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Affirmative Action; Race; Colleges; Socioeconomic Influences; Diversity (Institutional); College Admission; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rasse; Abstammung; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	After almost a half century, American higher education's use of racial preferences in admissions to selective colleges may well be coming to an end. The good news for people concerned about racial and economic justice is that in several states that have banned racial affirmative action by voter referendum or executive order, legislators and college officials have not given up on pursuing diversity. To the contrary, they have invented new systems of affirmative action that in many respects are superior to the ones being replaced since they are attentive to both economic and racial diversity. Seven states, with more than one-quarter of American high-school students, have abandoned racial and ethnic preferences at state colleges and universities; in two additional states, leading institutions have dropped race from admissions decisions. The author reports on the national ban on racial preferences in admissions that could push colleges to correct deeper issues of inequality. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10