Asian-Americans Give U. of California an Unexpected Fight over Admissions Policy

Autor/in	Schmidt, Peter
Titel	Asian-Americans Give U. of California an Unexpected Fight over Admissions Policy
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2009) 31, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Governing Boards; Chinese Americans; College Admission; Immigrants; Asian Americans; Educational Policy; Parent Aspiration; Enrollment; State Legislation; Court Litigation; Parent Attitudes; Alumni; Educational Attitudes; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Governing body; Governing bodies; Leitungsgremium; Asian immigrant; Chinese; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; Chinesen; USA; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Elternwille; Einschulung; Landesrecht; Rechtsstreit; Elternverhalten; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Kalifornien
Abstract	Largely because of their high aspirations for their children, many Chinese immigrants are acutely aware of the University of California's new undergraduate-admissions policy. With the new policy, the Board of Regents hopes to widen the applicant pool and give campuses more flexibility in selecting students. Asian-Americans bitterly oppose it, believing they'll lose out. One university analysis supports their view, suggesting the Asian-American share of students would decline under the new system. Several of the state's most prominent Asian-American leaders, feeling that the university blindsided them by adopting the admissions policy with little advance notice of how it would affect Asian enrollments, have responded by blindsiding the university with a campaign of resistance involving legislative pressure, threats of litigation, and angry letters and phone calls from Asian-American parents and alumni. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10