No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal (eBook)

Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life

Thomas J. Espenshade, Alexandria Walton Radford (Autoren)

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2009
568 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3153-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The truth about America's elite colleges and universities-who gets in, who succeeds, and whyAgainst the backdrop of today's increasingly multicultural society, are America's elite colleges admitting and successfully educating a diverse student body? No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal pulls back the curtain on the selective college experience and takes a rigorous and comprehensive look at how race and social class impact each stage-from application and admission, to enrollment and student life on campus. Arguing that elite higher education contributes to both social mobility and inequality, the authors investigate such areas as admission advantages for minorities, academic achievement gaps tied to race and class, unequal burdens in paying for tuition, and satisfaction with college experiences.The book's analysis is based on data provided by the National Survey of College Experience, collected from more than nine thousand students who applied to one of ten selective colleges between the early 1980s and late 1990s. The authors explore the composition of applicant pools, factoring in background and "e;selective admission enhancement strategies"e;-including AP classes, test-prep courses, and extracurriculars-to assess how these strengthen applications. On campus, the authors examine roommate choices, friendship circles, and degrees of social interaction, and discover that while students from different racial and class circumstances are not separate in college, they do not mix as much as one might expect. The book encourages greater interaction among student groups and calls on educational institutions to improve access for students of lower socioeconomic status.No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal offers valuable insights into the intricate workings of America's elite higher education system.

Autor

Thomas J. Espenshade is professor of sociology at Princeton University. Alexandria Walton Radford completed her PhD in sociology at Princeton University and is the associate director of postsecondary education at MPR Associates Inc. in Washington, DC.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.10.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 55 line illus. 81 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Academic achievement • ACT (test) • advanced • Advanced Placement • Affirmative Action • alumnus • Beverly Daniel Tatum • Bruce Western • Class rank • class size • College Board • Common Application • Cornel West • credential • Dean's list • Demography • disadvantage • Discrimination • dormitory • Downside Risk • early action • Early admission • Early decision • Education • Encompass • Equal Opportunity • estimation • Ethnic Studies • extracurricular activity • fafsa • Foreign Language • Glenn Loury • Graduation • grandparent • Grutter v. Bollinger • Gunnar Myrdal • Harriet Zuckerman • higher education • honors college • howard university • income • Independent measures • Institution • Institutionalized discrimination • Intellectual giftedness • Interquartile range • Lani Guinier • Lee Bollinger • Legacy preferences • Longevity • Make a Difference • middle class • minority group • minority-serving institution • Net Impact • No Child Left Behind Act • Odds Ratio • Pell Grant • percentage • Percentage point • percentile • pessimism • Prep for Prep • Private School • private university • Public institution (United States) • Public university • p-value • Quartile • race matters • racial hierarchy • Racial segregation • reconstruction era • Regents Examinations • reverse discrimination • Richard Kahlenberg • Richard Zeckhauser • SAT • Scarcity • school choice • Selective school • self-concept • Skewness • smith college • Social Class • Social distance • Socioeconomic Status • Stafford Loan • state school • Student • term paper • Test Preparation • transition year • Tuition payments • undergraduate education • Unemployment • University • University and college admission • valedictorian • Ward Connerly
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3153-9 / 1400831539
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3153-1 / 9781400831531