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Item Details
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DIVERSITY CHALLENGED
EVIDENCE ON THE IMPACT OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION |
| By: |
Gary Orfield (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£22.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1891792024 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781891792021 |
| Publisher: |
HARVARD EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2001 |
| Description: |
Diversity Challenged provides evidence for why the recent influx of minority groups is a positive influence in higher education. This book provides a crucial framework on affirmative action and its effect on learning, job preparation, and citizenship. |
| Synopsis: |
This book explores what is known about how increasing minority enrollment changes and enriches the educational process. 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. 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. From the Introduction by Gary Orfield" |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard Educational Publishing Group |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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