Coleman says it is important for all pieces of the strategies to work together cohesively.
“We can’t divorce the message from the messenger, or policy from the public perception,” he says. “This is for college leaders to go beyond the four corners of their institution and do the educationally smart thing and the legally right thing.”
In conclusion, the report says it is important that higher education leaders not
lose sight of the core issues and challenges associated with access, opportunity and diversity throughout the education pipeline.
“Thus, attention to longer term investments (such as support for pipeline-building programs) and shorter term strategies (such as rigorous evaluation and pursuit of all available avenues — race-conscious and race-neutral — likely to advance institutional goals) can frame a comprehensive and coherent action agenda that is compelling in the court of law, just as it is in the court of public opinion,” says the report.
— By Shilpa Banerji
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