Burning Down the House
Subtitle: Politics, Governance, And Affirmative Action at the University of California (Suny Series in Frontiers in Education)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780791460580
Subjects: Higher & further education; Philosophy of education; Social history; History; Education; Education / Teaching; Higher; Philosophy & Social Aspects
First sentence: On July 20, 1995, in the culmination of twelve months of rising organizational and political economic conflict, the University of California (UC) Board of Regents voted 14-10 to end race and gender preferences in university admissions, and 15-10 to do so for employment and contracting.