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State Affirmative Action Bans and STEM Degree Completions

Investigates the effect of affirmative action bans on aggregate STEM degree completion across the US. Banning affirmative action may do more than shift minority students pursuing STEM from more selective colleges to less selective colleges. Minority students may also switch majors while
enrolling in the same institution, as well as attend community colleges or pursue other career
options.

Activating Diversity: The Impact of Student Race on Contributions to Course Discussions

1) Are black students more likely than their white peers to bring up different issues or topics in these classes? If so, are there significant race differences in the degree to which students reference different sociological institutions, cultural symbols, and demographics categories?

2) Do students with different race backgrounds utilize different strategies or resources in these course discussions?

Empahty or Antipathy? The Impact of Diversity

The consequences of intergroup interactions in one particular real-world context by examining whether attitudes and behaviors change when people of different races are randomly assigned to live together at the start of their first year of college.

Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Diversity Rationale

Examines the legal history and the philosophical foundation of the diversity rationale

K-12 Race-Conscious Student Assignment Policies: Law, Social Science and Diversity

Examines the legality of K-12 race-conscious student assignment policies

Law, Race, and Education in the United States

Describes features that structure educational opportunity and how race interacts with these. Studies the law-race relation as it operates in education.

Diversity in Higher Education: Theory and Impact in Educational Outcomes

Explore relationship between students’ experiences with diverse peers in the college or university settings and their educational outcomes.

Affirmative Action in the Classroom: Diversity Effects on Student Outcomes: Social Science Evidence

Impact of diversity on student learning in higher education

Notes: An Evidentiary Framework for Diversity as a Compelling Interest in Higher Education

How should courts address diversity in higher education?