Introduction, Lisa M. Stulberg and Sharon Lawner Weinberg
I. The K-12 Pipeline: Impacts on Educational Equity
1. Ethnic and Social Class Disparities in Academic Skills: Their Origins and Consequences, Meredith Phillips
2. Inside the K-12 Pipeline for Black and Latino Students, Amanda E. Lewis and Michelle J. Manno
3. Testing, No Child Left Behind, and Educational Equity, Linda Darling-Hammond
II. The Diversity Imperative: Postsecondary Institutional and Legal Ramifications
4. A Long View on "Diversity": A Century of American College Admissions Debates, Lisa M. Stulberg and Anthony S. Chen
5. The Diversity Imperative in Elite Admissions, Mitchell L Stevens and Josipa Roksa
6. The Diversity Rationale: Its Limitations for Educational Practice, Mitchell J. Chang and María C. Ledesma
7. The Official Organization of Diversity in American Higher Education: A Retreat from Race? anthony lising antonio and Chris Gonzalez Clarke
Section III. Understanding Progress and Continuing Challenges in American Higher Education
8. Trends in the Education of Underrepresented Racial Minority Students, Peter Teitelbaum
9. Gender Equity in Higher Education, Claudia Buchmann and Thomas A. DiPrete
10. LGBT Students, Faculty, and Staff: Past, Present, and Future Directions, Debbie Bazarsky and Ronni Sanlo
11. Identifying Talent, Interrupting the Usual: Diversifying the Faculty, Daryl G. Smith
12. Asian Americans and Diversity Talk: The Limits of the Numbers Game, Dana Takagi
13. Conservative Critics and Conservative College Students: Variations in Discourses of Exclusion, Amy J. Binder and Kate Wood
14. Explaining Professors’ Politics: Is It a Matter of Self-Selection? Neil Gross and Catherine Cheng
15. Experiences of Exclusion and Marginalization: A Study at the Individual Student Level, Bonita London, Vanessa Anderson, and Geraldine Downey
IV. Future Implications for Diversity: Practice, Policy, and the Law
16. HBCUs: Continued Relevance in the New Century, Sarah Willie-LeBreton
17. The Role of Women’s Colleges in the 21st Century, Leslie Miller-Bernal
18. The New Financial Aid Policies: Their Impact on Access and Equity for Low-Income Students, Bridget Terry Long
19. Improving Assessments of Faculty Diversity, Sharon Lawner Weinberg
20. New Legal Perspectives: Implications for Diversity in the Post-Grutter Era, Lia Epperson