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The Oxford disaster ... price of defiance / by Wiesenburg, Karl,author.(CARDINAL)896037;

Subjects: University of Mississippi; Segregation in education; Discrimination in higher education; African Americans;

Disorientation / by Chou, Elaine Hsieh,author.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-403)."A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity"--

Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Campus fiction.; Women doctoral students; Chinese American women; Education, Higher; Discrimination in higher education; Satire, American.;

Women and girls in STEM fields : a reference handbook / by Page, Heather Burns,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Authoritative and engaging, this one-stop resource provides a valuable overview of the past, present, and future of women and girls in STEM fields"--Grades 10-12

Subjects: Women in science; Women in science; Sex discrimination in science; Sex discrimination in higher education; Sex discrimination against women;

The merit myth : how our colleges favor the rich and divide America / by Carnevale, Anthony Patrick,author.(CARDINAL)178474; Schmidt, Peter,1964 January 20-author.(CARDINAL)484790; Strohl, Jeff,author.(CARDINAL)839210;

Includes bibliographical references and index."An eye-opening and timely look at how colleges drive the very inequalities they are meant to remedy, complete with a call - and a vision - for change"--

Subjects: Discrimination in higher education; Education, Higher; College attendance; Universities and colleges;

Ebony and ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / by Wilder, Craig Steven.(CARDINAL)685582;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: African Americans; Discrimination in higher education; Minorities; Racism in education; Slavery; Universities and colleges;

Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities / by Wilder, Craig Steven,author.(CARDINAL)685582;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue : a Connecticut Yankee at an ancient Indian mound -- Part I. Slavery and the rise of the American college. The edges of the empire -- "Bonfires of the Negros" -- "The very name of a West-Indian" -- Ebony and ivy -- Part II. Race and the rise of the American College. Whitening the Promised Land -- "All students & all Americans" -- "On the bodily and mental inferiority of the Negro" -- "Could they be sent back to Africa" -- Epilogue : cotton comes to Harvard."A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy. Many of America's revered colleges and universities--from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to Rutgers, Williams College, and UNC--were soaked in the sweat, the tears, and sometimes the blood of people of color. The earliest academies proclaimed their mission to Christianize the savages of North America, and played a key role in white conquest. Later, the slave economy and higher education grew up together, each nurturing the other. Slavery funded colleges, built campuses, and paid the wages of professors. Enslaved Americans waited on faculty and students; academic leaders aggressively courted the support of slave owners and slave traders. Significantly, as Wilder shows, our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained them. Ebony and Ivy is a powerful and propulsive study and the first of its kind, revealing a history of oppression behind the institutions usually considered the cradle of liberal politics." -- Publisher's description.A leading African American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy, revealing that leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.

Subjects: African Americans; Discrimination in higher education; Minorities; Racism in education; Slavery; Universities and colleges;

Bigotry and violence on American college campuses / by United States Commission on Civil Rights.(CARDINAL)137811;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-80).

Subjects: Discrimination in higher education; Minority college students; School violence; Toleration.;

Class matters : the fight to get beyond race preferences, reduce inequality, and build real diversity at America's colleges / by Kahlenberg, Richard D.,author.(CARDINAL)204162;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: My front-row seat in the battles over affirmative action -- Introduction: Who enters the "river of power"? -- Kennedy, King, and the corporate lawyer who diverted the dream -- The blue state populist revolt against racial preferences -- The establishment strikes back : O'Connor's "victory for de Tocqueville" -- Fits and starts : the failed effort to address a piece of America's "most serious domestic problem" -- Obama's daughters and other challenges to racial preferences -- A justice flips and elites prevail -- Peeking behind the admissions curtain : how Harvard creates a multiracial aristocracy -- Lifting the admissions veil at the "people's university" in North Carolina -- Racism, antiracism, and the search for sanity in the age of Trump and Biden -- Students for Fair Admissions in the high court -- What next? From diversity to adversity -- Opening the doors a third time."Richard Kahlenberg has been on a lifelong journey to expand social and economic opportunity and provide a much wider group of people the opportunity to have a place at the table. In this highly personal and deeply researched book he dramatically and persuasively illustrates that class should be the determining factor for how a wider group of people gain admittance to higher education and the opportunity to "swim in the river of power". While elite universities claim to be on the side of social justice, the dirty secret of higher education in the United States is that the decades-long focus on racial diversity provides cover for an admissions system that mostly benefits the wealthy and shuts out talented working-class students. How to rectify the resulting skyrocketing economic inequality and class antagonism is a question of profound moral and practical importance. Kahlenberg has long worked with prominent civil rights leaders on housing and school integration, but he made a controversial decision to go over to the "other side" and provide research and testimony that helped lead to the controversial Supreme Court decision of 2023 that ended racial preferences. Ironically, he shows, this decision could actually result in a progressive policy outcome - from one that benefited the upper-middle class to one that helps working-class students. By removing legacy admissions, increasing community college transfers, growing financial aid programs, and recruiting students from underrepresented communities, colleges can create more seats for working-class students, a disproportionate share of whom are Black and Latino"--

Subjects: Informational works.; Affirmative action programs in education; Universities and colleges; Working class; Educational equalization; Discrimination in higher education;

Harvard's secret court : the savage 1920 purge of campus homosexuals / by Wright, William,1930-2016.(CARDINAL)152913;

Includes bibliographical references page (283-284) and index.

Subjects: Harvard University; Discrimination in higher education; Gay college students; Gay college students.;

Mismatch : how affirmative action hurts students it's intended to help, and why universities won't admit it / by Sander, Richard Henry,1956-author.(CARDINAL)690224; Taylor, Stuart,Jr.,1948-author.(CARDINAL)530589;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index.I. Introduction. The idea of mismatch and why it matters -- A primer on affirmative action -- II. Stirrings of mismatch. The discovery of the mismatch effect -- Law school mismatch -- The debate on law school mismatch -- The breadth of mismatch -- III. The California experiment: What happens after a legal ban on racial preferences? Proposition 209: the high road and the low road -- The warming effect -- Mismatch and the swelling ranks of graduates -- The hydra of preferences: the evasion of Prop 209 at the University of California -- IV. Law and ideology. Why academics avoid honest debate about affirmative action -- Media, politics, and the accountability void -- The Supreme Court: rewarding opacity -- The George Mason affair -- Transparency and the California Bar affair -- V. The way forward. Class, race, and the targeting of preferences -- Closing the test score gap: better parenting and K-12 education -- Conclusion.

Subjects: Affirmative action programs in education; Discrimination in education; Educational equalization; Minorities; Universities and colleges;

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