Nicholas Hillman & Gary Orfield 
Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education [EPUB ebook] 

Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education offers a renewed vision for higher education policy making, presenting an incisive analysis of the connections between educational politics and educational inequality. With a view toward the future, the editors assert that the thoughtful application of evidence-based solutions to complex policy problems can help establish a more just and equitable system of higher education.



Edited by Nicholas Hillman and Gary Orfield, the volume focuses on federal policy debates that have significant racial and socioeconomic implications, linking civil rights reforms to contemporary higher education policy issues. Through a mix of history and current events, the chapters highlight how policy has strayed from the Higher Education Act’s intended trajectory of promoting and protecting civil rights. This drift, the editors show, has created far-reaching consequences for students of color, low-income students, and incarcerated students, in addition to the colleges that serve them.



Deftly identifying the social justice dimensions of today’s federal policies, the editors reveal how certain political influences have preserved the interests of powerful and historically advantaged stakeholders—often at the expense of those who are less powerful and most disadvantaged. With great insight, the book’s contributors explore higher education issues such as enrollment at Minority Serving Institutions, for-profit college outcomes, and legal and academic perspectives on affirmative action.



Perhaps more importantly,
Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education provides guidance on what can be done to course correct. The book offers short- and long-term policy prescriptions and policy alternatives to help legislative staffers, policy analysts, and researchers plot a way forward.

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Nicholas Hillman is  a  professor  in  the  Department  of  Educational  Leadership  and  Policy  Analysis  at  the  University  of  Wisconsin–Madison, where he also is a faculty affiliate with the Institute for Research on  Poverty  and  the  La  Follette  School  of  Public  Affairs.  His  research focuses  on  postsecondary  finance  and  financial  aid  policy,   primarily  as they  relate  to  college  access  and  equity.  Hillman  has  testified  to  the  US House  of  Representatives  and  the  Wisconsin  State  Assembly  on  issues related to higher education accountability and finance. He teaches courses in politics of higher education, higher education finance, educational policy, and research methods. He also directs the Student Success Through Applied Research Lab, a research-practice partnership with the University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Enrollment Management.Gary Orfield is  Distinguished  Research  Professor  of  Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los  Angeles,   where  he  is  also  codirector  of  the  Civil  Rights  Project  he cofounded at Harvard University in 1996. He is a political scientist whose work includes more than a dozen authored or edited books, one of which was cited by the Supreme Court in upholding affirmative action. Orfield’s work focuses on equal opportunity and civil rights and has been included in testimony in more than twenty major class action civil rights lawsuits on school segregation, housing discrimination, and other civil rights violations.  He  has  taught  at  six  universities,   including  Harvard  University and the University of Chicago, and is a member of the National Academy of Education.