Promise and Dilemma : : Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education /

Promise and Dilemma : : Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education / / ed. by Eugene Y. Lowe.

Issues of diversity and affirmative action have turned elite higher education in the United States into contested terrain. Rights revolutions in the country have raised hopes that have proved difficult to fulfill. Most particularly, expectations about access and opportunity--redressing the unfairnes...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Bowen, William G.,
Kennedy, Randall,
Light, Richard J.,
Lowe Jr., Eugene Y.,
Miller, L. Scott,
Ramphele, Mamphela,
Shapiro, Harold T.,
Smelser, Neil J.,
Steele, Claude M.,
Tien, Chang-Lin,
Treisman, Philip Uri,
HerausgeberIn:
Lowe, Eugene Y.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©1999
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The William G. Bowen Series ; 119
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Physical Description:1 online resource (223 p.) :; 7 line illus. 12 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • PART I
  • One PROMISE AND DILEMMA INCORPORATING RACIAL DIVERSITY IN SELECTIVE HIGHER EDUCATION
  • PART II
  • Two PROMOTING HIGH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG NON-ASIAN MINORITIES
  • Three A THREAT IN THE AIR HOW STEREOTYPES SHAPE INTELLECTUAL IDENTITY AND PERFORMANCE
  • Four A PRACTITIONER'S VIEW FROM TEXAS COMMENTS ON THE ESSAYS BY L. SCOTT MILLER AND CLAUDE M. STEELE
  • Five ASSESSMENT AND STUDENT DIVERSITY COMMENTS ON THE ESSAYS BY L. SCOTT MILLER AND CLAUDE M. STEELE
  • PART III
  • Six EQUITY AND EXCELLENCE - STRANGE BEDFELLOWS? A CASE STUDY OF SOUTH AFRICAN HIGHER EDUCATION
  • Seven FACING THE DILEMMAS OF DIFFERENCE COMMENTS ON THE ESSAY BY MAMPHELA RAMPHELE
  • Eight PROBLEMATICS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION A VIEW FROM CALIFORNIA
  • Nine WHAT A UNIVERSITY CAN LEARN AND TEACH ABOUT CONFLICT AND DIFFERENCE COMMENTS ON THE ESSAY BY NEIL J. SMELSER
  • EPILOGUE
  • INDEX

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