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Campus Diversity

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Media, politicians, and the courts portray college campuses as divided over diversity and affirmative action. But what do students and faculty really think? This book uses a novel technique to elicit honest opinions from students and faculty and measure preferences for diversity in undergraduate admissions and faculty recruitment at seven major universities, breaking out attitudes by participants' race, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, and political partisanship. Scholarly excellence is a top priority everywhere, but the authors show that when students consider individual candidates, they favor members of all traditionally underrepresented groups - by race, ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic background. Moreover, there is little evidence of polarization in the attitudes of different student groups. The book reveals that campus communities are less deeply divided than they are often portrayed to be; although affirmative action remains controversial in the abstract, there is broad support for prioritizing diversity in practice.

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ISBN: 9781108745307
Publication date: 19th December 2019
Author: John M. (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire) Carey, Katherine (Stanford University, California) Clayton, Yusaku (Dartmo Horiuchi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 274 pages
Genres: Higher education, tertiary education
Moral and social purpose of education
Educational strategies and policy
Sociology
Political science and theory
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies