The Case for Affirmative Action in University Admissions
back to main page of
The Case for Affirmative Action in University Admissions

  Table of Contents
        Foreword by the Rev. Jesse Jackson
        Acknowledgements
        Introduction
   1     Why It Matters
   2     The Core Issue and the U. S. Supreme Court
   3     Dueling Federal Judges and the Ensuing Confusion
   4     Problems With Early Affirmative Action Policies

   5     Attacking Those Early Policies
   6     Unprecedented Policies: SP-1 and Proposition 209
   7     Unprecedented Consequences
   8     Pies in the Sky: Socio-Economic Affirmative Action and Percent Plans
  9     More Pie: Outreach! Transfer!
  10     Pogo: We Have Met the Enemy…
  11     Trouble Ahead
  12     What Admissions Policy-Makers Can Do
        Appendix 1 — Special Policy 1 (SP-1), July 20, 1995
        Appendix 2 — Guidelines for Implementation of University Policy on Undergraduate Admissions, July 1996
        Appendix 3 — UC Berkeley Fall 1998 Freshman Admission Policy
 
back to main page of
The Case for Affirmative Action in University Admissions