Affirmative Action
A Better
A Century Foundation Report
Affirmative
State Universities that Created Alternatives to Racial Preferences
Action:
Richard D. Kahlenberg
Individual State University Profiles by Halley Potter
A Century Foundation Report
A Better Affirmative Action
State Universities that Created Alternatives to Racial Preferences
Richard D. Kahlenberg Individual State University Profiles by Halley Potter
The Century Foundation is a progressive nonpartisan think tank. Originally known as the Twentieth Century Fund, it was founded in 1919 and initially endowed by Edward Filene, a leading Republican businessman and champion of fair workplaces and employee ownership strategies, all with an eye to ensuring that economic opportunity is available to all. Today, TCF issues analyses and convenes and promotes the best thinkers and thinking across a range of public policy questions. Its work today focuses on issues of equity and opportunity in the United States, and how American values can be best sustained and advanced in a world of more diffuse power.
Board of Trustees of The Century Foundation
Bradley Abelow Jonathan Alter H. Brandt Ayers Alan Brinkley, Chairman Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Alexander Morgan Capron Hodding Carter III Edward E. David, Jr. Brewster C. Denny Charles V. Hamilton Melissa Harris-Perry Matina S. Horner Janice Nittoli, President Lewis B. Kaden Alicia H. Munnell Janice Nittoli P. Michael Pitfield John Podesta Richard Ravitch Alan Sagner Harvey I. Sloane, M.D. Kathleen M. Sullivan Shirley Williams William Julius Wilson
A Better Aff irmative Action: State Universities that Created Alternatives to Racial Preferences
Contents
Introduction I. Racial Affirmative Action in Higher Education May Be on Its Way Out 1
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II. What Should Replace Racial Affirmative Action in Higher Education? 11 III. Profiles of States in Which Affirmative Action in College Admissions Has Been Banned 26 Notes About the Authors iii 63 70
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A Century Foundation Report
Affirmative
State Universities that Created Alternatives to Racial Preferences
Action:
Richard D. Kahlenberg
Individual State University Profiles by Halley Potter
A Century Foundation Report
A Better Affirmative Action
State Universities that Created Alternatives to Racial Preferences
Richard D. Kahlenberg Individual State University Profiles by Halley Potter
The Century Foundation is a progressive nonpartisan think tank. Originally known as the Twentieth Century Fund, it was founded in 1919 and initially endowed by Edward Filene, a leading Republican businessman and champion of fair workplaces and employee ownership strategies, all with an eye to ensuring that economic opportunity is available to all. Today, TCF issues analyses and convenes and promotes the best thinkers and thinking across a range of public policy questions. Its work today focuses on issues of equity and opportunity in the United States, and how American values can be best sustained and advanced in a world of more diffuse power.
Board of Trustees of The Century Foundation
Bradley Abelow Jonathan Alter H. Brandt Ayers Alan Brinkley, Chairman Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Alexander Morgan Capron Hodding Carter III Edward E. David, Jr. Brewster C. Denny Charles V. Hamilton Melissa Harris-Perry Matina S. Horner Janice Nittoli, President Lewis B. Kaden Alicia H. Munnell Janice Nittoli P. Michael Pitfield John Podesta Richard Ravitch Alan Sagner Harvey I. Sloane, M.D. Kathleen M. Sullivan Shirley Williams William Julius Wilson
A Better Aff irmative Action: State Universities that Created Alternatives to Racial Preferences
Contents
Introduction I. Racial Affirmative Action in Higher Education May Be on Its Way Out 1
3
II. What Should Replace Racial Affirmative Action in Higher Education? 11 III. Profiles of States in Which Affirmative Action in College Admissions Has Been Banned 26 Notes About the Authors iii 63 70
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