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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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A Supreme Challenge: Achieving the Educational and Societal Benefits of Diversity after the Supreme Court's "Fisher" Decision
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Alger, Jonathan R. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2013
This invited commentary provides a response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the case of "Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin" (2013). The author addresses the question regarding whether the newest decision about the use of affirmative action in higher education admissions raised the bar with respect to the legal doctrine…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Affirmative Action, Student Diversity, Federal Courts
Advancing Diversity in Higher Education
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Turner, Caroline S. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2013
This special section of the "Journal of Diversity in Higher Education" ("JDHE") on "Advancing Diversity in Higher Education" emerged from the 2012 Association for the Study of Higher Education Council on Ethnic Participation (ASHE-CEP) Pre-Conference Forum. CEP, a standing committee of ASHE, partnered with the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Diversity (Institutional), Diversity (Faculty), Disproportionate Representation
Promoting Institutional Change through Bias Literacy
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Carnes, Molly; Devine, Patricia G.; Isaac, Carol; Manwell, Linda Baier; Ford, Cecelia E.; Byars-Winston, Angela; Fine, Eve; Sheridan, Jennifer – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2012
The National Science Foundation and others conclude that institutional transformation is required to ensure equal opportunities for the participation and advancement of men and women in academic science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Such transformation requires changing the habitual attitudes and behaviors of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Intervention, Organizational Change, Sex Fairness