How Affirmative Action Context Shapes Collegiate Outcomes at America ’s Selective Colleges and Universities

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dc.contributor.authorLutz, Amy
dc.contributor.authorBennett, Pamela R.
dc.contributor.authorWang, Rebecca
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-23T15:10:08Z
dc.date.available2019-10-23T15:10:08Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractDuring the 1990s and early 2000s, the affirmative action context in the United States changed. Affirmative action in higher education was banned in several states, and the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter (2003) that affirmative action, while constitutional, should be implemented via holistic evaluation of applicants. In this article, we use two datasets to examine how affirmative action context relates to academic outcomes at selective colleges and universities in the United States before and after the Grutter decision and in states with and without bans on affirmative action. Underrepresented minority students earned higher grades in the period after the Grutter decision than before it, indicating that the holistic evaluation method required by Grutter may enhance educational outcomes for these students. In contrast, we find no support for the idea, proposed by critics of the policy, that banning affirmative action leads to better collegiate outcomes for Black and Latino students at selective institutions.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by the National Science Foundation [Award #1228207].en_US
dc.description.urihttps://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1366&context=jlspen_US
dc.format.extent22 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2qlex-koop
dc.identifier.citationCitation Information Lutz, Amy; Bennett, Pamela R.; and Wang, Rebecca. "How Affirmative Action Context Shapes Collegiate Outcomes at America’s Selective Colleges and Universities." Journal of Law and Social Policy 31. (2019): 71-91. https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/jlsp/vol31/iss1/4en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/15962
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherYork University
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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dc.subjectaffirmative action contexten_US
dc.subjectholistic evaluationen_US
dc.subjectacademic outcomesen_US
dc.subjectUnderrepresented minority studentsen_US
dc.titleHow Affirmative Action Context Shapes Collegiate Outcomes at America ’s Selective Colleges and Universitiesen_US
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