{"id":8987,"date":"2017-10-17T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2017-10-16T22:22:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T22:22:35","slug":"race-for-admissions-changing-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2017\/10\/17\/race-for-admissions-changing-affirmative-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Race for Admissions: Changing Affirmative Action"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Daniel Hirschman and Ellen Berrey, <\/span>“The Partial Deinstitutionalization of Affirmative Action,” Sociological Science<\/em>,<\/a><\/span> 2017<\/span><\/div>\n
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Since the 1960\u2019s, many American colleges and universities have considered race in admissions decisions as a means to reduce racial inequality and foster more diverse student bodies. Such \u201caffirmative action\u201d programs have long been controversial, however, and several recent, high-profile court cases at elite institutions have raised new challenges to race-based targeting in higher education. New research from\u00a0<\/span>Daniel Hirschman<\/span><\/a> and\u00a0<\/span>Ellen Berrey<\/span><\/a> suggests that these political and legal controversies have had consequences for schools\u2019 previous commitments to consider an applicant\u2019s race. What\u2019s more, these changes are most pronounced at the least selective schools that are theoretically more accessible to those from underprivileged backgrounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div> Through an analysis of almost 1,000 colleges and universities using data collected from the College Board ASC dataset and Barron\u2019s <\/span>Profile of Colleges<\/span><\/i>, Hirschman and Berrey find that the proportion of schools that consider race in admissions has dropped from 60% in 1994 to 35% in 2014. The authors also find that a school\u2019s status or competitiveness is the largest predictor of whether that school continued to consider race in admissions. Notably, schools that are <\/span>less<\/span><\/i> selective were more likely to stop using race as a factor in admissions. In other words, the drop in race-based admissions is most pronounced at schools that would be more affordable and accessible for students from more disadvantaged backgrounds. Hirchman and Berrey\u2019s analysis reminds us that despite headlines about \u201caffirmative action\u201d lawsuits at elite colleges and universities, the <\/span>real<\/span><\/i> news seems to be at the nation\u2019s non-elite schools — and that news isn\u2019t good, at least not when it comes to access and opportunity for students of color.\u00a0 The proportion of schools that consider race in admissions has dropped from 60% in 1994 to 35% in 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniel Hirschman and Ellen Berrey, “The Partial Deinstitutionalization of Affirmative Action,” Sociological Science, 2017 Since the 1960\u2019s, many American colleges and universities have considered race in admissions decisions as a means to reduce racial inequality and foster more diverse student bodies. Such \u201caffirmative action\u201d programs have long been controversial, however, and several recent, high-profile court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,85,14],"tags":[1053,83,43,102541,37332,37336,37333],"class_list":["post-8987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inequality","category-politics","category-race","tag-admissions","tag-affirmative-action","tag-college","tag-elite-schools","tag-inequality","tag-politics","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8991,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions\/8991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}