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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED171178 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Post-Bakke Policy Conferences of Administrators of
High-Demand Academic Programs. Reports of Eleven
Conferences
Held September 1978-February 1979.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1979
NOTE: 277 p.
ABSTRACT: Information on eleven conferences focusing on
post
Bakke policy and sponsored by the American Council on
Education for administrators of high-demand programs is
presented. An introductory report by Todd Furniss
("Professional Education After Bakke") discusses the
rationale for the conferences and examines some of the
implications for post-Bakke policy. Conference schedules,
participants, materials, and summary reports are included
for conferences held at Harvard University, University of
Michigan, California Institute of Technology, University of
North Carolina, Wellesley College, and Northwestern
University. The conferences were held between September
1978
and February 1979 throughout the country and emphasized
affirmative action in graduate programs in law, education,
business, veterinary medicine, dentistry, and medicine. One
conference was held on undergraduate programs. Five papers
that were specially prepared for the conference are
included. These are: "Bakke and Graduate Schools of
Business" (Robert M. O'Neil); "Bakke: The Impact on
Fellowships" (Robert M. O'Neil); "What Can and Is to Be
Done: After Bakke" (Lubosh G. Hale); "The Bakke Decision:
The Legal Ramifications" (S. B. Burbank); and "The Black
Exclusion of Veterinary Medicine" (G. Gurney). (BH)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Access-to-Education;
Administrative-Policy;
Admission-School; Business-Education; Conference-Reports;
Conferences-; Dental-Schools; Educational-Discrimination;
Equal-Education; Graduate-Study; Higher-Education; Law
Schools; Legal-Responsibility; Medical-Schools; Minority
Groups; Opinions-; Policy-Formation; Selective-Admission;
Undergraduate-Study; Veterinary-Medicine
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Admission-Criteria; *Affirmative-Action;
*Professional-Education; *Racial-Discrimination; *Reverse
Discrimination; *Sex-Discrimination
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