Chilling Admissions: The Affirmative Action Crisis and the Search for Alternatives

by Civil Rights Project Harvard University and Gary Orfield

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891792008
• ISBN13: 9781891792007
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Harvard Education PR
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.