Burning Down the House: Politics, Governance, And Affirmative Action at the University of California

by Pusser, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780791460580
• ISBN10: 0791460584
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780791485262
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

"Burning Down the House presents an analysis of one of the most nationally prominent and bitterly contested policy battles in the history of American higher education: the struggle to eliminate affirmative action at the University of California. A timely and essential addition to the literature on affirmative action, it examines the political, economic, legal, and organizational factors that shaped the debate in California and offers unique insight into the contemporary politics of admissions policy, university governance, and the role of higher education in broader state and national political contests to come."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Brian Pusser is Assistant Professor at the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Virginia.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Burning Down the House: The Politics of Higher Education Policy	1	(12)
The UC Governance and Decision-Making Structure: History and Context	13	(12)
The Context Shaping the Affirmative Action Contest at UC	25	(20)
Interest Articulation and the Illusion of Control	45	(38)
The New Politics of Governance	83	(36)
National Contest and Conflic	119	(24)
Contest, Resistance, and Decision	143	(54)
Aftermath	197	(14)
The End and the Beginning	211	(18)
Appendix 1. SP-1 as Amended and Passed	229	(2)
Appendix 2. SP-2 as Amended and Passed	231	(2)
Notes	233	(20)
Bibliography	253	(10)
Index	263	(16)
List of Titles, SUNY series: Frontiers in Education	279