Resources for Issues on Campus

Compiled by Wallace Library Reference Librarians to support teaching and community discussions at Wheaton College.

Affirmative Action in Education & Diversity Issues | Univ. of Mich. Affirmative Action Case | Selected Articles

Affirmative Action in Education & Diversity Issues

The Affirmative Action and Diversity Project: A Web Page for Research

Created and maintained by Carl Gutierrez-Jones, English Dept., Univ. of California Santa Barbara, this site is designed as an academic resource on affirmative action and diversity for scholars, students, and the interested public. Resources are both on- and off-site (links). The site contains "a substantial amount of information on California politics and the recent Proposition 209". However, a large number of resources on a number of topics of general concern and interest are also provided.
http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/

DiversityWeb: An Interactive Resource Hub for Higher Education

Affirmative Action Policies and Frameworks/ Association of American Colleges & Universities. Numerous articles, statements, studies and reports offering a balanced overview of the debate.
http://www.diversityweb.org/research_and_trends/political_legal_issues/affirmative_action_policies/index.cfm

Race, Gender, and Affirmative Action; Resource Page For Teaching

Elizabeth Anderson, Philosophy Dept., University of Michigan. An annotated bibliography of resources on race, gender, and affirmative action intended for the use of faculty who are designing courses concerning race, gender, and affirmative action, and for students and browsers interested in a guide to the literature.
http://www-personal.umich.edu./%7Eeandersn/biblio.htm

National Public Radio

Enter keywords "affirmative action" for audio files and tape transcripts of NPR programming.
http://www.npr.org

Affirmative Action in College Admissions - Duke University

Links to resources.
http://www.duke.edu/~mag4/4.html

Affirmative Action Information Center - National Center for Public Policy

Research Commentaries, Legislation, Litigation, and Links from The National Center for Public Policy Research, "a communications and research foundation dedicated to providing free market solutions to today's public policy problems... to provide the conservative movement with a versatile and energetic organization capable of responding quickly and decisively to fast-breaking issues."
http://www.nationalcenter.org/AA.html

Diversity & Affirmative Action in Higher Education

"Lists documents describing the [American Association of University Professors'] policies and ongoing work on these issues, and other pertinent information to allow members to follow current developments", including articles from Academe.
http://www.aaup.org/Issues/AffirmativeAction/index.htm

University of Michigan Affirmative Action Case and Related Information

Ancheta, Angelo (2003). Revisiting Bakke and diversity-based admissions constitutional law, social science research, and the University of Michigan affirmative action cases: briefing paper. Cambridge, MA : The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/policy/legal%5Fdocs/Revisiting%5Fdiversity.pdf

Race-Conscious Admissions Policies Challenged: University of Michigan's Affirmative Action Under Fire.

Civil Rights Project: Harvard University, January 13, 2003. Includes side bar with links to Supreme Court oral arguments, legal briefs, studies, and surveys.
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/policy/court/michigan03.php

The Center For Individual Rights Student Handbook on Racial Preferences

The Center For Individual Rights (CIR), a conservative public interest law organization, launched a pair of lawsuits ¢ Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger ¢ challenging race-based admissions at the University of Michigan's Law School and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
http://www.cir-usa.org/articles/student_web.pdf

No Retreat: The Alamo of Affirmative Action

This page, also from the Center For Individual Rights, provides links to transcripts, articles, press releases, and surveys.
http://www.cir-usa.org/recent_cases/michigan_background.html

Information on Admissions Lawsuits/ from the University of Michigan.

Contains news releases, articles, legal overview, court filings, supporting research, etc.
http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/

Briefs and Materials Pertaining to the U of Michigan Race Preference Cases

National Association of Scholars
http://www.nas.org/reports/sup_ct_mich/sup_ct_mich_launch.htm

Articles in Journals Selected to Provide a Variety of Perspectives

The following articles are available to Wheaton users only.

Affirmative Action: don't mend it or end it--bend it. Peter H. Schuck. Brookings Review, Wntr 2002 v20 i1 p24(4) link

The Future of Affirmative Action; Promoting diversity in education and employment requires us to rethink testing and "meritocracy. by Susan Sturm and Lani Guinier. Originally published in the December 2000/January 2001 issue of Boston Review
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Preservation or Transformation: Where's the Real Educational Discourse on Diversity? Mitchell J. Chang. The Review of Higher Education 25.2 (2002) 125-140.
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We recommend you use Lexis-Nexis Academic to locate full-text news articles and articles on broader issues in newspapers, nation and worldwide, including The Chronicle of Higher Education and The New York Times. Consult the National Journal's PollTrack for recent opinion poll information. Both are online research databases available to Wheaton users only. Ask a librarian for assistance.

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