Inequities in higher education: Issues and promising practices in a world ambivalent about affirmative action

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 407-426

  Niemann, Yolanda Flores ^a,b   Maruyama, Geoffrey ^b,c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Department of Comparative Ethnie Studies ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION POLICY; HIGHER EDUCATION; RACE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 29144490636     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2005.00414.x     Document Type: Review

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