San Antonio College Library

"The core of the book details the efforts of Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler and his attempts first to facilitate admissions at Columbia College and then to implement blatantly discriminatory policies, especially Jewish students. Dr. Wechsler goes on to examine how such policy implementations at Columbia affected other universities. He describes reform at the University of Chicago between World wars I and II; the general changes in admission...

Includes new information for international students, transfer students, and students with disabilities, this authoritative college admission resource covers such topics as financial aid, early decision, the SAT, writing an effective essay, and how colleges make their decisions.

The authors "focus on the developmental tasks and competencies that young people need to master in order to plan for and succeed in higher education. These include identity development, articulating aspirations and expectations, forming and maintaining strong peer and adult relationships, motivation and goal setting, and self-regulatory skills, such as planning."--Back cover.

Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most of these opinion leaders say, and the public believes, about standardized testing just isn't so. However, few members of the general public, not even...

A higher-education journalist draws on insider access to explain the nuts and bolts of college admissions today, outlining the unexpected agendas that reflect which and why prospective students receive admission into better schools. From award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions office--one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in...

"While stories of working-class and minority students overcoming obstacles to attend and graduate from college tend to emphasize the individualistic and meritocratic aspect, this book - based in extensive empirical study of American high school classrooms, and in theories of social and cultural capital - examines the social relations that often underpin such successes, highlighting the significant formal and informal academic interventions by educators...

"This volume is the sequel to First in the Family: Your High School Years, in which the authors of this book describe how they made their way to college admission, offering practical strategies for others to do the same"--Title page verso.

Amaka Okechukwu offers a historically informed sociological account of the struggles over affirmative action and open admissions in higher education. Through case studies of policy retrenchment at public universities, she documents the protracted--but not always successful--rollback of inclusive policies in the context of shifting race and class politics. To Fulfill These Rights highlights the voices and actions of the students fighting policy shifts...

Since its inception, affirmative action has been a controversial policy, and on all sides of the issue passions run high. Sometimes commentators have looked with clarity at the deep and complex issues surrounding affirmative action, but too often facts have been in shorter supply than misinformed opinions. Sex, Race, and Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in Education and Employment is designed to enhance intelligent discussion of the issues, presenting...