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- catalog abstract "Shameful Admissions takes us behind the scenes of one of our nation's most prestigious public institutions and gives us the inside story on why and how we blame affirmative action for creating an educational system that no longer delivers. Browne-Miller's expose on this controversial topic not only explains the inner workings, stresses, and strains of higher education in this country, it also sets out solutions to the challenge of preserving equal educational opportunity for all students. According to Browne-Miller, the assumption that the rebalancing of social inequalities can be accomplished during four years of college is ludicrous. The affirmative action admission, contracting, and hiring policies neither caused nor created the real challenges posed by an increasingly diverse student population. In fact, they have resulted in a new kind of stereotyping, cultural clustering, and discrimination in the classroom and have distracted us from the more central issue of a fragmented and overextended university system. Browne-Miller urges us to look beyond the affirmative action debate to ask the critical questions: Should everyone go to college? Is a college degree all it's cracked up to be? And she maps out a radical revision of higher education that transforms the present system, offers wider and more diverse opportunity, and, at the same time, preserves the central intellectual traditions we hold dear.".
- catalog contributor b8577663.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-268) and index.".
- catalog description "Shameful Admissions takes us behind the scenes of one of our nation's most prestigious public institutions and gives us the inside story on why and how we blame affirmative action for creating an educational system that no longer delivers. Browne-Miller's expose on this controversial topic not only explains the inner workings, stresses, and strains of higher education in this country, it also sets out solutions to the challenge of preserving equal educational opportunity for all students. According to Browne-Miller, the assumption that the rebalancing of social inequalities can be accomplished during four years of college is ludicrous. The affirmative action admission, contracting, and hiring policies neither caused nor created the real challenges posed by an increasingly diverse student population. In fact, they have resulted in a new kind of stereotyping, cultural clustering, and discrimination in the classroom and have distracted us from the more central issue of a fragmented and overextended university system. Browne-Miller urges us to look beyond the affirmative action debate to ask the critical questions: Should everyone go to college? Is a college degree all it's cracked up to be? And she maps out a radical revision of higher education that transforms the present system, offers wider and more diverse opportunity, and, at the same time, preserves the central intellectual traditions we hold dear.".
- catalog description "The admissions furor -- What's at stake in the drive for access? -- Who gets in? -- The "nasty problem" of fairness on the multicultural campus -- Frustrated students and teachers in the diverse classroom -- Shameful admissions: offering less and less to more and more -- Can we serve them all? -- Rethinking pathways to the American Dream.".
- catalog extent "xxviii, 276 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Shameful admissions.".
- catalog identifier "0787901822 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Shameful admissions.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Shameful admissions.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "378.1/051/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Affirmative action programs United States.".
- catalog subject "Affirmative action programs in education United States.".
- catalog subject "Education, Higher Political aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "LB2351.2 .B76 1996".
- catalog subject "Minorities Education (Higher) United States.".
- catalog subject "Universities and colleges United States Admission.".
- catalog subject "University of California, Berkeley Admission.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The admissions furor -- What's at stake in the drive for access? -- Who gets in? -- The "nasty problem" of fairness on the multicultural campus -- Frustrated students and teachers in the diverse classroom -- Shameful admissions: offering less and less to more and more -- Can we serve them all? -- Rethinking pathways to the American Dream.".
- catalog title "Shameful admissions : the losing battle to serve everyone in our universities / Angela Browne-Miller.".
- catalog type "text".