College desegregation report

[OHMomof2]

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Court decisions dating to the 1950s theoretically ended racial segregation of higher education in the United States. But data to be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association show that the pace of desegregation has slowed over time. And in a finding that could be controversial, the study finds that states that ban the consideration of race in admissions may see the pace of desegregation accelerate.</p>

<p>Read more: [Data</a> presented at economics meeting show extent of desegregation in higher education | Inside Higher Ed](<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/04/data-presented-economics-meeting-show-extent-desegregation-higher-education#ixzz2H2aOUKaO]Data”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/04/data-presented-economics-meeting-show-extent-desegregation-higher-education#ixzz2H2aOUKaO)
Inside Higher Ed

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<p>Some interesting stuff in there.</p>

[Beliavsky]

<p>As Roger Clegg says in the comments at Inside Higher education:</p>

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If racial imbalances are not the result of deliberate sorting by some higher authority of individuals by skin color – but are, instead, the result of individual choices, geography, etc. – then they really are not segregation. For example, labeling an Idaho community college (located in a part of the state where there are few racial minorites) as “segregated” is not illuminating.

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[OHMomof2]

<p>The data dealt only with white and black students, and correctly points out that black students are not evenly distributed through the country. </p>

<p>And you may appreciate this bel:

Recent statewide affirmative action bans by some states may actually be reducing racial segregation.

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<p>Actual study: <a href=“http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/plh24/Hinrichs_segregation_092012.pdf[/url]”>http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/plh24/Hinrichs_segregation_092012.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[ucbalumnus]

<p>Would the states he looked at with statewide affirmative action bans necessarily be good ones to draw conclusions from with respect to how segregated white and black students are? California and Texas have substantial and growing non-NH-white non-NH-black populations (especially in the college student age group) which may affect the results of this study.</p>