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- catalog abstract ""Promise and Dilemma gathers the reflections of a group of leading educators on whether and how objectives of diversity, equity, and excellence can be simultaneously pursued. Empirical in orientation, these essays focus on constructive proposals and on the role of social and political consensus. Furthermore, they contrast what we believe we know with what empirical data and institutional experience can teach us."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11024523.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Promise and Dilemma gathers the reflections of a group of leading educators on whether and how objectives of diversity, equity, and excellence can be simultaneously pursued. Empirical in orientation, these essays focus on constructive proposals and on the role of social and political consensus. Furthermore, they contrast what we believe we know with what empirical data and institutional experience can teach us."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Promise and dilemma : incorporating racial diversity in selective higher education / Eugene Y. Lowe -- Promoting high academic achievement among non-Asian minorities / L. Scott Miller -- Threat in the air : how stereotypes shape intellectual identity and performance / Claude M. Steele -- Practitioner's view from Texas : comments on the essays by L. Scott Miller and Claude M. Steele / Philip Uri Treisman -- Assessment and student diversity : comments on the essays by L. Scott Miller and Claude M. Steele / Richard J. Light -- Equity and excellence- strange bedfellows? A case study of South African higher education / Mamphela Ramphele -- Facing the dilemmas of difference : comments on the essay by Mamphela Ramphele / Randall Kennedy -- Problematics of affirmative action : a view from California / Neil J. Smelser -- What a university can learn and teach about conflict and difference : comments on the essay by Neil J. Smelser / Chang-Lin Tien.".
- catalog extent "xv, 206 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691004897 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "South Africa".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "306.43 21".
- catalog subject "Academic achievement United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Affirmative action programs United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Affirmative action programs in education United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Educational equalization South Africa Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Educational equalization United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "LC3727 .P77 1999".
- catalog subject "Minorities Education (Higher) United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Universities and colleges South Africa Sociological aspects Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Universities and colleges United States Sociological aspects Case studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Promise and dilemma : incorporating racial diversity in selective higher education / Eugene Y. Lowe -- Promoting high academic achievement among non-Asian minorities / L. Scott Miller -- Threat in the air : how stereotypes shape intellectual identity and performance / Claude M. Steele -- Practitioner's view from Texas : comments on the essays by L. Scott Miller and Claude M. Steele / Philip Uri Treisman -- Assessment and student diversity : comments on the essays by L. Scott Miller and Claude M. Steele / Richard J. Light -- Equity and excellence- strange bedfellows? A case study of South African higher education / Mamphela Ramphele -- Facing the dilemmas of difference : comments on the essay by Mamphela Ramphele / Randall Kennedy -- Problematics of affirmative action : a view from California / Neil J. Smelser -- What a university can learn and teach about conflict and difference : comments on the essay by Neil J. Smelser / Chang-Lin Tien.".
- catalog title "Promise and dilemma : perspectives on racial diversity and higher education / Eugene Y. Lowe, Jr., editor.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".