New York Times Debate: Can Diversity Survive Without Affirmative Action

Richard Kahlenberg, Patricia Williams, Richard Vedder, Marta Tienda, Stephanie Reyes-Tuccio and John Britain
May 14, 2013

Debate over whether or not college and universities will be able to achieve desired levels of “diversity” without policies of race-based affirmative action.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/05/13/can-diversity-survive-without-affirmative-action

 

New York Times Debate: Fears of an Asian Quota in the Ivy League

Ron Unz, Khin Mai Aung, Rod Bugarin, S.B. Woo, Jeff Neal, John Brittain and Richard Kahlenberg
December 20, 2012

Debate over whether or not top colleges are using affirmative action policies to limit, or impose quotas on, Asian students.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/19/fears-of-an-asian-quota-in-the-ivy-league

 

Race a Significant Factor in Medical School Applications

Association of American Medical Colleges
December 17, 2012

According to documents made public by the Association of American Medical Colleges, race plays a large role in the medical student application process.

https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/157998/mcat-gpa-grid-by-selected-race-ethnicity.html

 

The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low Income Students

Caroline Hoxby and Christopher Avery, National Bureau of Economic Research
December 2012

Most high-achieving students who are low-income do not apply to the top 4 percent of colleges or universities, even though attendance there would often cost them less because of generous financial aid.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w18586

 

Racial and Ethnic Admissions Preferences at the University of Oklahoma

Althia Nagai, Center for Equal Opportunity
October 22, 2012

Evidence of racial discrimination in law, undergraduate and medical school admissions at the University of Oklahoma.

http://www.ceousa.org/affirmative-action/affirmative-action-news/employment/146-about-ceousa301871013/documents/624-univ-of-oklahoma-admissions

 

A Better Affirmative Action

Richard D. Kahlenberg, Century Foundation
October 3, 2012

Class-based preferences in education are far more effective than race or gender preferences at helping the people who need to be helped.

http://tcf.org/assets/downloads/tcf-abaa.pdf

 

An Empirical Analysis of Racial Segregation in Higher Education

Peter Hinrichs, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
September 20, 2012

Recent state-wide affirmative action bans may be reducing racial segregation on college campuses.

http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/plh24/Hinrichs_segregation_092012.pdf

 

What Happens After Enrollment?

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban M. Aucejo and Ken Spenner, Duke University
August 9, 2012

Some data suggests that those who receive race preferences in college admissions “catch up” with their peers over the course of four years, but this study documents that GPA convergence is explained by dramatic shifts from initial interest in the natural sciences, engineering, and economics to easier majors in the humanities and social sciences.

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/grades_4.0.pdf

 

The Scale and Effect of Admissions Preferences in Higher Education

Compilation of papers and studies from a number of scholars addressing the effects of race and gender preferences in higher education.

http://www.seaphe.org/working-papers/