Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites. Mitchell L Stevens

Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites


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Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites Mitchell L Stevens
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May 15, 2009 - Here's an interesting review of a book that proffers an explanation of the element of diversity in the so-called “elite” college admissions process. The Power of Privilege: Yale and America's Elite Colleges. Sep 15, 2008 - Sociologist Mitchell Stevens underlines this truth in his rich ethnographic study Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites. That imperative, however, could be overruled, Powell said, by a university's legitimate concern for the educational benefits of a demographically diverse student body. Oct 28, 2013 - In the US we have placed the weight of creating a democratic citizenry and providing an avenue of equal opportunity squarely and often solely on the shoulders of our public and private education systems. These students should make up the bulk of their entering classes. Public education system that allowed my father, child of non-english speaking Ukranian immigrants, to make it into a state university, earn a degree in engineering, raise a family, send four children through college and retire comfortably in the upper middle class. Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. While almost all college administrators and college admissions officers at the most elite institutions think in racial balancing and racial quota-like terms when they assemble their student body, they almost always deny this publicly in .. Jan 15, 2012 - Soares, Joseph A.





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