The Making of The University of Michigan 1817-1992

Peckham, Howard H.; Steneck, Margaret L.; Steneck, Nicholas H.

doi:10.3998/mpub.10504

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“…The sheer numbers of students applying to universities increased, as did the qualifications necessary for acceptance (Peckham, 1994;Steinberg, 2002). Administrators began to assign greater weight to SATs and other standardized measures of achievement.…”

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“…In the 1960s and 1970s, the University of Michigan pioneered the Opportunity Awards Program to admit and financially support racial minority students. The program sought to "provide opportunities to that group of citizens whose race and/or economic status has met social and cultural disadvantage from generation to generation" (University of Michigan, 1971:9) Administrators began it at a time when black students represented under .1 percent of the student body and when explicitly discriminatory practices, such as fraternities' secret "bias clauses," were commonplace on campus (Peckham, 1994). Like most other race-based affirmative admissions programs Over the following fifteen years, university leaders continued to describe the campus community and the university's values in terms of diversity and to tout the instrumental benefits of diversity for learning.…”

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Why Diversity Became Orthodox in Higher Education, and How it Changed the Meaning of Race on Campus

2011

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Using qualitative data about University of Michigan between 1965 and 2005, this article shows how administrators' diversity discourse and programs have defined race as a cultural identity, expressed through interaction, which provides instrumental benefits. It also explains three major reasons why, starting in the mid-1980s, university administrators adopted this racial orthodoxy of "diversity": to signal compliance with-and also to redefine-law and institutional norms while still practicing race-based affirmative admissions; to frame inclusion in more complex terms than a racial binary or numerical representation amidst growing campus multiculturalism; and to market the university, especially to white students. The article advances racial formation theory by developing the concept of a racial orthodoxy. It shows that diversity discourse and programs have sometimes advanced the goal of racial minority inclusion, but at the cost of downplaying problems of racial inequality and misrepresenting racial minorities' campus experiences.

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Why Diversity Became Orthodox in Higher Education, and How it Changed the Meaning of Race on Campus

2011

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“…Also prevalent was the belief that the university must give service to the state that helped maintain it and aid citizens who were not enrolled at the school. By the end of the 19th century, the University of Michigan had become one of the most successful examples of a nonsectarian, state-supported universityFa model for other state universities (Peckham, 1994).…”

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“…The naming of Henry Tappan and Erastus O. Haven, scholars in the moral philosophy tradition, as the first two presidents of the University of Michigan suggests that psychology was a valued field of study at the institution (Peckham, 1994).…”

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Xiii. Contributions of African Americans From the University of Michigan to Social Science Research on Black Children and Families

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2006

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“…Universities began recognizing this by the mid-1800s when presidents added science to literary departments. The "newcomers" to the liberal arts are not the sciences but rather fine arts, music, and the social sciences (Bordin, 1967;Peckham, 1967). If students are to be educated in a broad range of the liberal arts, we need to encourage nonscience majors to learn some science.…”

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