Burning Down the House presents a riveting analysis of one of the most nationally prominent and bitterly contested policy battles in the history of American higher education: the struggle to eliminate affirmative action at the University of California. A timely and essential addition to the literature on affirmative action, it examines the political, economic, legal, and organizational factors that shaped the debate in California and offers unique insight into the contemporary politics of admissions policy, university governance, and the role of higher education in broader state and national political contests to come.
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Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Burning Down the House: The Politics of Higher Education Policy
2. The UC Governance and Decision-Making Structure: History and Context
3. The Context Shaping the Affirmative Action Contest at UC
4. Interest Articulation and the Illusion of Control
5. The New Politics of Governance
6. National Contest and Conflict
7. Contest, Resistance, and Decision
8. Aftermath
9. The End and the Beginning
Appendix 1. SP-1 as Amended and Passed
Appendix 2. SP-2 as Amended and Passed
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Titles, SUNY series: Frontiers in Education
Circa l’autore
Brian Pusser is Associate Professor at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.
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