Affirmative Action

Research related to Affirmative Action

Can Socioeconomic Status Substitute for Race in Affirmative Action College Admissions Policies? Evidence From a Simulation Model

 

Two Decades After the Affirmative Action Ban: Evaluating the University of California’s Race-Neutral Efforts

 

More than 800 Scholars File Brief with U.S. Supreme Court Supporting Diversity Policies in College Admissions

More than 800 social scientists from all parts of the U.S. recently submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court presenting evidence on the need to maintain colleges’ rights to consider race as one of many factors in selecting students. We believe that this brief is the most massive outpouring of scholarly support ever for a social science brief in a civil rights case.

Race, Class, and College Access: Achieving Diversity in a Shifting Legal Landscape

This report was produced by Pearson, ACE and the CRP to broaden the understanding of the work and challenges facing institutions and further much-needed dialogue on how they can best respond to a shifting policy and legal landscape at a time when access to postsecondary education has never been more vital and our American citizenry never so diverse.

Is Opportunity Knocking or Slipping Away? Racial Diversity and Segregation in Pennsylvania

As a slow-growth increasingly diverse state with an aging population, Pennsylvania needs to think hard about its continued passive acceptance of segregated and inferior schooling, and about the spread of destructive racial patterns from urban areas into growing sectors of suburbia and small cities.