Diversity Challenged: Evidence on the Impact of Affirmative Action.

摘要: This book explores what is known about how increasing minority enrollment changes and enriches the educational process. In courts in referenda campaigns, affirmative action college admissions under full-scale attack. Though it was designed to help resolve a variety of serious racial problems, action's survival may turn on just one question--whether or not value diversity sufficiently compelling justify consideration race as factor deciding whom admit colleges universities. "Diversity Challenged" address that question. chapter after chapter, researchers policymakers discuss substantial developing evidence showing students can usually does produce broader experience, both traditional learning preparing for jobs, professions, effective citizenship multiracial democracy. The also suggests such benefits be significantly increased by appropriate leadership support campus. Diversity challenged campuses today, but research this shows works. From Introduction Gary Orfield"