Campus Diversity: The Hidden Consensus

By Katherine Clayton, John Carey, Yusaku Horiuchi

Book Overview

Media, politicians, and the courts portray college campuses as divided over diversity and affirmative action. But what do students and faculty really think? This book uses a novel technique to elicit honest opinions from students and faculty and measure preferences for diversity in undergraduate admissions and faculty recruitment at seven major universities, breaking out attitudes by participants' race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and political partisanship. Scholarly excellence is a top priority everywhere, but the authors show that when students consider individual candidates, they favor members of all traditionally underrepresented groups - by race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic background. Moreover, there is little evidence of polarization in the attitudes of different student groups. The book reveals that campus communities are less deeply divided than they are often portrayed to be; although affirmative action remains controversial in the abstract, there is broad support for prioritizing diversity in practice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110874530X
• ISBN13: 9781108745307
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"