According to Espenshade and Chung (2005),eliminating Affirmative Action Programs Would

question 56

Multiple Choice

According to Espenshade and Chung (2005) ,eliminating affirmative action programs would do which of the following?

• A) sharply lower the number of legacy admissions at elite colleges and universities
• B) decrease black and Hispanic admission acceptance rates by one-half to two-thirds
• C) increase by one-third the number of women admitted to elite universities
• D) not change the percentage of minority students at elite colleges and universities

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Definitions:

Support Department Allocations

The distribution of costs from support departments to producing departments based on the level of service used.

Cost Driver

A factor that causes the costs of an activity to increase or decrease.

Sequential Method

A cost allocation technique that processes cost pools in a pre-determined order, allocating costs to one cost object before moving on to the next.

Support Department Allocations

The process of attributing a portion of support (or indirect) department costs to the producing departments within an organization, based on agreed-upon criteria.