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Interview With Paulo Speller, Brazilian Higher Education Secretary, Marion Lloyd
Interview With Paulo Speller, Brazilian Higher Education Secretary, Marion Lloyd
Marion Lloyd
In an interview, Paulo Speller, Brazil´s secretary for higher education, speaks of the challenges in overseeing sweeping higher education reforms, including federally mandated affirmative action policies and the region´s largest science and technology study-abroad scholarship program.
What The U.S. Can Learn From Affirmative Action In Brazil, Marion Lloyd
What The U.S. Can Learn From Affirmative Action In Brazil, Marion Lloyd
Marion Lloyd
The United States has much to learn from Brazil´s sweeping affirmative action programs--in particular, the South American country´s efforts to combine socio-economic and racial criteria in selecting beneficiaries.
Affirmative Action, Brazilian-Style, Marion Lloyd
Affirmative Action, Brazilian-Style, Marion Lloyd
Marion Lloyd
Six years after Brazilian universities began embracing affirmative action, higher education in Brazil is no longer the domain of a mostly white elite. Since 2003 more than 1,300 institutions of higher education have adopted quotas for AfroBrazilians and graduates of public high schools. The government has also created 10 public universities and dozens of new campuses in poor areas in an effort to expand access to higher education for the underprivileged. But the debate over the quota system—racial quotas in particular—continues to inflame passions in a country that has long considered itself a racial democracy.