Campus Diversity - The Hidden Consensus

Media, politicians, and the courts portray college campuses as divided over diversity and affirmative action. But what do students and faculty really think? Deploying a novel technique to elicit honest opinions, this book finds far more consensus than division, revealing broad support for decisions that favor traditionally underrepresented groups.

List of contents

1. What we are studying, why, and how; 2. Roots of the current diversity debates; 3. Our conjoint experiments; 4. What students think: Results across all students; 5. How attitudes differ across groups; 6. How preferences differ by political beliefs; 7. What about when all else is not equal?; 8. How student attitudes differ from faculty attitudes; 9. Evidence from other cases; 10. Conclusion.

About the author

John M. Carey is the John Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Katherine Clayton is a political science Ph.D. student at Stanford University, California.Yusaku Horiuchi is Professor of Government and the Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

Summary

Media, politicians, and the courts portray college campuses as divided over diversity and affirmative action. But what do students and faculty really think? Deploying a novel technique to elicit honest opinions, this book finds far more consensus than division, revealing broad support for decisions that favor traditionally underrepresented groups.

Product details

• Authors: John (Dartmouth College Carey, John M Carey, John M. Carey, John M. (Dartmouth College Carey, Carey John M., Katherine Clayton, Katherine (Dartmouth College Clayton, Katherine (Stanford University Clayton, Yusaku Horiuchi, Yusaku (Dartmouth College Horiuchi, Horiuchi Yusaku
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108477956
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47795-6
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political science & theory, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Moral and social purpose of education, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Political science and theory, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Multicultural education, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy