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Edited by Gary
Orfield and Edward Miller
Foreword by Christopher
Edley, Jr.
Harvard Education Publishing Group, Copyright
© 1998
ISBN 1-891792-00-8
$18.95 paperback, 132 pp.
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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.
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.
Foreword by Christopher Edley, Jr.
Campus Resegregation
and Its Alternatives
Gary Orfield
Misconceptions in the Debate Over Affirmative Action
in College Admissions
Thomas J. Kane
No Alternative: The Effects of Color-Blind Admissions
in California
Jerome Karabel
Hopwood in Texas: The Untimely end of Affirmative
Actions
Jorge Chapa and Vincent A. Lazaro
The Hopwood Chill: How the Court Derailed Diversity
Efforts at Texas A&M
Susanna Finnell
Notes from the Field: Higher Education Desegregation
Robert A. Kronley and Claire V. Handley
Race and Testing in College Admissions
Michael T. Nettles, Laura W. Perna, and Catherine M. Millett
Testing a New Approach to Admissions: The Irvine
Experience
Susan A. Wilbur and Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth
An Admissions Process for a Multiethnic Society
Greg Tanaka, Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth, and Alexander W. Astin
"This may be the most important book in higher
education today. At a time in which affirmative action is under
siege, this volume offers the facts--research on the consequences
of repealing affirmative action, and urgently needed, workable alternatives
for maintaining diversity on campus. It is a must read for anyone
who cares about or is responsible for the future of America's colleges
and universities."
--Arthur Levine
President, Teachers College, Columbia University
"The collection in Chilling Admissions is an
important and desperately needed contribution to informed policy
judgments about affirmative action in higher education. Its great
value is to bring facts into what has become, more and more, a sterile
and abstract ideological debate, fueled by political appeals to
those who feel threatened by minority groups. I hope it is widely
read, and stimulates more thoughtful discussion on its own level."
--Burke Marshall
Professor, Yale Law School
Former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
"An interesting, timely, and well-informed book
on the impact of present efforts to eliminate affirmative action
in college and university admissions. It illuminates many complexities
that should inform debate on the subject."
--Nathan Glazer
Professor of Education and Social Structure, Emeritus
Harvard University
"Sheds vitally important new light on the effects
of affirmative action. Enormously valuable."
--Diana Chapman Walsh
President, Wellesley College
"Chilling Admissions sheds light on one of the
most heated subjects in U.S. higher education--the use of race-conscious
affirmative action in admissions. The nine essays in this volume
include detailed reports and analyses from the front lines of California
and Texas, where affirmative action has been banned and universities,
forced to radically redesign their policies, are struggling to devise
viable alternatives for promoting campus diversity. Together, these
essays place the current crisis in historical and legal context
while raising the troubling issues of race, testing, and the definition
of "merit" in college admissions. At the same time, they
cast doubt on some widely held views about the actual impact and
costs of affirmative action.
"The diversity of American higher education is
often and properly described as the system's great strength. By
taking 'affirmative' steps, colleges and universities have worked
for a generation to create the diverse environments essential for
learning and crucial for a healthy, productive society. For those
concerned about the future of American higher education and our
role in the society, this is an important book."
--Stanley Ikenberry President, American Council on Education
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