| Chilling Admissions: The Affirmative Action Crisis and the Search for Alternatives Contributor(s): Orfield, Gary (Editor), Miller, Edward (Editor), Edley, Chistopher (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1891792008 ISBN-13: 9781891792007 Publisher: Harvard Education PR OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Administration - Higher - Education | Higher - Education | Multicultural Education |
| Dewey: 379.260 |
| LCCN: 98071079 |
| Physical Information: (0.44 lbs) 142 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays in this volume represent the work of the leading scholars of affirmative action in higher education, and place the current crisis on campus in its larger context of historical discrimination and the legal battle for educational equity. After a generation of efforts to reverse the historic exclusion of minorities from their campuses, U.S. colleges and universities are facing a frontal attack on the programs, policies, and commitments born of these efforts. Chilling Admissions documents and examines their struggle to foresee the consequences of abandoning affirmative action in admissions and financial aid, and to devise viable alternatives for promoting and preserving campus diversity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Orfield, Gary: - Gary Orfield is a professor of education, law, political science and urban planning, and codirector of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.Miller, Edward: - Edward Miller, coeditor of Chilling Admissions, has written widely on urban education and school reform. He is the former editor of the Harvard Education Letter.Edley, Chistopher: - Christopher Edley, Jr., is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Codirector of the Harvard Civil Rights Project. |