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Title:
Affirmative action and racial equity : considering the Fisher case to forge the path ahead / edited by Uma M. Jayakumar and Liliana M. Garces with Frank Fernandez.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xxi, 230 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Affirmative action programs in education--United States.
Universities and colleges--United States--Admission.
Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--United States.
Minorities--Education (Higher)--United States.
Educational equalization--United States.
Universities and colleges--Law and legislation--Law and legislation--Texas.
Affirmative action programs in education--Law and legislation--Texas.
University of Texas at Austin--Trials, litigation, etc.
University of Texas at Austin.
Affirmative action programs in education.
Affirmative action programs in education--Law and legislation.
Discrimination in education--Law and legislation.
Educational equalization.
Minorities--Education (Higher)
Trials.
Universities and colleges--Admission.
Universities and colleges--Law and legislation.--Law and legislation.
Texas.
United States.
Other Authors:
Jayakumar, Uma M., editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011092367
Garces, Liliana M., editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015012063
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The legal context and social science evidence in Fisher v. University of Texas / Liliana M. Garces -- Leadership, citizenship, and civic capacity : the imperative of racial diversity for realizing higher education's public mission / Susan Sturm and Olatunde C.A. Johnson -- The promise of diversity in remedying the harms of identity-related threats and racial isolation / Allison S. Elgart, Victoria C. Plaut, Nicole Arlette Hirsch, and Eva Jefferson Paterson -- Tejas es diferente : UT Austin's admissions program in light of its exclusionary history / Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Lani Guinier, and Gerald Torres -- Access and diversity at the University of California in the post-affirmative action era / Michal Kurlaender, Elizabeth Friedmann, and Tongshan Chang -- The mismatch myth in U.S. higher education : a synthesis of empirical evidence at the law school and undergraduate levels / William c. Kidder and Richard O. Lempert -- Amplifying Asian American presence : contending with dominant racial narratives in Fisher / Mitchell James Chang -- From access to outcomes : considering the Texas top ten percent plan and its relationship to student persistence / Catherine L. Horn and Stella M. Flores -- Walking the diversity rationale talk : a call to institutions / María C. Ledsma -- Reflections on the diversity (rationale) literature : examining the potential and need for critical diversity research praxis / Uma M. Jayakumar and Annie S. Adamian, with Mitchell James Chang -- Afterword: Working collectively toward racial equity in higher education policy / Uma M. Jayakumar and Liliana M. Garces.
ISBN:
1138785369
9781138785366
1138785350
9781138785359
OCLC:
(OCoLC)893895709
LCCN:
2014041359
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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