Campus Strategic Action in the Fisher Case: Organizational Stakeholder Advocacy Across the Field of Higher Education

Cassie L. Barnhardt (), Ryan L. Young, Jessica K. E. Sheets, Carson W. Phillips, Eugene T. Parker and Kimberly Reyes
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Cassie L. Barnhardt: University of Iowa
Ryan L. Young: University of Iowa
Jessica K. E. Sheets: University of Iowa
Carson W. Phillips: University of Iowa
Eugene T. Parker: University of Kansas
Kimberly Reyes: University of Michigan

Research in Higher Education, 2017, vol. 58, issue 3, No 5, 313-339

Abstract: Abstract Using a census sampling, this analysis evaluates the campus structures and practices that are predictive of a campus being affiliated with stakeholder legal advocacy regarding the Fisher Supreme Court affirmative action case of 2013. Findings reveal that a campus utilizing selective admissions operated as a sufficient, but not a necessary, requirement to prompt stakeholders to take a legal position in the case. Also, campuses that enrolled and graduated the largest percentages of nonwhite students were inclined to have stakeholders submit amicus briefs advocating support for UT-Austin and the use of race in selective college admissions.

Keywords: Fisher v. University of Texas-Austin; Amicus curiae; Strategic action fields; Organizational stakeholders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11162-016-9428-9

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