A recent report, Turning the Tide, urges colleges and universities to reexamine their admissions process. What about measuring creativity?
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Admissions officers alone cannot change the way achievement is currently defined. Parents, employers and those who work in education need to lead by example.
Scholars argue that the affirmative action case could have consequences for the educational success of students of color.
As the affirmative action case comes up before the US Supreme Court again, the question being asked is how much diversity is enough?
Limiting the use of race in higher education admissions policies for institutions can have harmful consequences for the diversity of the student body.
Not all Asian-Americans are high-achieving model minorities. What happens when the myth of Asian disadvantage hurts some of the most marginalized students in the US?
Could the Abigail Fisher case, which is back before the Supreme Court, further limit the use of race in higher education admissions policies for institutions across the nation?
The pursuit to get into the best colleges has taken out the joy of learning from students’ lives.
Ban on affirmative action across eight states has led to a drop in minority students at medical schools.
“Affirmative action won’t be around for much longer, ” said one of our professors twenty years ago, advising against writing a dissertation on this topic. The United States Supreme Court’s Schuette decision…
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Associate Professor of Education, The University of Texas at Austin
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Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Tufts University
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Professor of Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Law and Don L. & Mabel F. Endowed Chair in Law, University of New Mexico
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Adjunct Professor of History, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
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Associate Professor of Education Policy and Psychology and 21st Century Chair, University of Arkansas
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Associate Provost and Professor of American Studies, Amherst College
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Associate Dean of Strategic Partnerships and Community Engagement, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Higher Education; Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity; Director of Access and Equity, Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy, New York University
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