Readings for Wednesday, April 17, Who goes to college and legal challenges to affirmative action

Here are the readings for next week. I have a bunch of deadlines the next two weeks, so am not sending a detailed bioliography, but will do that later.

There are three specific items that are separate files and a few bundles with news articles from various sources.

1. Attewell, P. and Lavin, D. E (2012) The other 75%: College education beyond the elite, ch 4 in E..C. Langermann and H. Lewis, What is College for?: The Public Purpose of Higher Education. New York: Teacher’s College Press.. attewell lavin

2.  Kim, Y.M. (2011) Minorities in higher education, 2011 Supplement. American Council on Education, , particularly the summary on pp 1-4 ace report

3. Lederman, D. (2013) Affirmative Action, Innovation and the Financial Future: A survey of presidents. Inside Higher Ed, March 1. (good for affirmative action/access issues but also as suggestions of what other college presidents are thinking, relevant to your interviews) lederman

4. Bundle 1: The case of Grutter vs. the University of Michigan grutter

5. Bundle 2: Post-Grutter developments: Accommodation and Alternatives post-grutter

6. Bundle 3: The newest cases: Fisher vs. U. Texas, a case on Michigan Proposition 2, now on the Supreme Court docket fisher & michigan

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Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College;former Dean for Research and Graduate Studies; neurobehavioral/developmental psychologist by training; Principal Investigator of grants for both research and institutional programs to increase STEM diversity and improve STEM teaching; UG degree from Brown University; MA and PhD degrees from Harvard University