Affirmative Discrimination and the Bubble

Autor/in	Clegg, Roger
Titel	Affirmative Discrimination and the Bubble
Quelle	In: Academic Questions, 24 (2011) 4, S.403-411 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-4852
DOI	10.1007/s12129-011-9252-9
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; Affirmative Action; Costs; Enrollment; College Admission; Educational Discrimination; Racial Discrimination; Equal Education; Ethnicity; Ethnic Groups; College Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Cost; Kosten; Einschulung; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Racial bias; Rassismus; Ethnizität; Ethnie; Collegestudent
Abstract	In this essay, the author discusses how affirmative action contributed to an unnatural rise in enrollments in college. In considering the higher education bubble, he makes the case that as the opposition to preferences continues to build, the momentum of this trend will only increase as funding shrinks. He offers some tentative answers to a series of questions, which he has tried to arrange in a logical sequence. Did affirmative action help cause the higher education bubble in the first place? What are the costs of preferences? Will the purported benefits of preferences diminish if the bubble bursts? Does the outcome of a cost-benefit analysis really matter; that is, even if preferential programs cost money, will they likely be scaled back as money becomes scarcer, or is the commitment to these programs so stubborn that they will be defended at all costs? Finally, with or without a burst bubble, where are racial preferences likely headed? (Contains 7 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10