Racial equity and higher education

From: Academe | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Renner, K Edward | Copyright information

To understand how little progress has been made in democratizing higher education, we need to change the terms of the debate.

For the past thirty-five years, U.S. colleges and universities have relied on preferential admissions to achieve racial equity among students. When the practice started in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I was a young professor at the University of Illinois, and I was excited that, collectively, we in higher education were going to do whatever was necessary to ...

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