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Promoting Diversity in College Classrooms:Innovative Responses for the Curriculum, Faculty and Institutions
From the Publisher
This journal presents a collection a essays that offer several new perspectives on teaching practice; give descriptive and narrative accounts of curricular and teaching innovations; and discusses a range of shared learnings obtained from public university, community college, and private college multicultural change processes. Chapters and their authors are as follows: (1) "Dynamics of Diversity in the Teaching-Learning Process:...
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Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook
Adams, Maurianne, Lee Anne Bell, Pat Griffin, editors
Routledge, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice is a much needed resource that addresses the need to facilitate communication and understanding between members of diverse social groups. It provides a unified framework by which students can engage and critically analyze several forms of social oppression and discrimination.
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Confronting Diversity Issues on Campus
Bowser, Benjamin, Gale Auletta, Terry Jones
Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA
1993
From the Publisher
Controversies about affirmative action hires, admission policies, intercultural relations in the classroom, the role of ethnic studies departments, and changes in course curriculum all seem to swirl around the changing ethnic composition of the campus. How do we all get along? Tackling this question are authors Bowser, Auletta, and Jones, who suggest some practical strategies for dealing with questions of racism, diversity,...
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Students With Disabilities: Building a Partnership in Equal Access to Learning
Conrardy, Joellen
Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN
1998
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Dialogues for Diversity: Community and Ethnicity on Campus
Kramer, Martin and Stephen Weiner
Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ
1994
From the Publisher
Provides organized materials intended to help groups of individuals on campus toward focused discussions of the role of ethnic diversity in the daily life of colleges and universities. The (welcome) aim is to help such groups find their own common ground, not to tell them what that common ground should be. Produced by the Project on Campus Community and Diversity of the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities...
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Approaches to Teaching Non-Native English Speakers Across the Curriculum
Sigsbee, David L., Bruce Speck and Bruce Maylath, editors
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1997
From the Publisher
This volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning makes the knowledge and skills of academic specialists available to subject-area faculty who deal with the writing and oral communication styles of non-native users of English in their classrooms. The chapters offer information and much-needed advice in nontechnical language about ways to help these students improve their writing and speaking skills in content-area courses....
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Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society
Banks, James A.
Teachers College Press, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
The thousands of immigrants who enter the United States each year, the increasing number of children who speak a first language other than English in the schools, and the ever-widening gap between rich and poor are some of the realities that educators face today. Given these conditions, it is increasingly difficult to prepare students for democratic citizenship. Bringing together years of work as an expert on multicultural education,...
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Diversity and Motivation: Culturally Responsive Teaching
Wlodkowski, Raymond J. and Margery B. Ginsberg
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1995
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This book provides teachers and trainers with sensitive and practical help in working effectively with groups of culturally diverse learners. Raymond J. Wlodkowski and Margery B. Ginsberg combine their respective expertise in motivation and multiculturalism to go beyond the usual rhetoric on promoting diversity, offering real-world guidance and suggestions for successful teaching in today's changing classroom environment. Using...
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"Race in the Classroom" w/booklet
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"Impediments to Teaching a Culturally Diverse Undergraduate Population"
Solomon, Barbara
Teaching Excellence 2, no. 4 (1990)
1990
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"Academic Culture: The Hidden Curriculum"
Adams, Maurianne
Teaching Excellence 3, no. 6 (1991)
1991
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"Teaching Authority in Cultural Perspective"
Foster, Charles R.
Quarterly Review (Fall 1992): 27-38
1992
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"Reaching African-American Students in the Classroom"
Collett, Jonathan
To Improve the Academy 9 (1990): 177-188
1990
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"Issues in Achieving Pluralism in Faculty Development: The Challenge and Opportunity of Inclusivity"
Berling, Judith
Theological Education 28, no. 1 (1991): 47-57
1991
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"Acknowledging the Learning Styles of Diverse Student Populations"
Anderson, James A., and Maurianne Adams
in Teaching for Diversity (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992), 19-33
1992
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"Fostering Positive Race, Class, and Gender Dynamics in the Classroom"
Cannon, Lynn Weber
Women's Studies Quarterly 18, no. 1 & 2 (1990): 126-134
1990
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The Majority in the Minority: Expanding the Representation of Latina/o Faculty, Administrators and Students in Higher Education
Castellanos, Jeanett and Lee Jones, editors
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2003
From the Publisher
Latinas/os are the largest ethnic minority group in the U.S. They are propelling minority communities to majority status in states as disparate as California, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Texas.
Their growth in the population at large is not reflected in higher education. In fact Latinos are the least represented population in our colleges and universities, whether as administrators, faculty or students; and as...
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Making a Difference: University Students of Color Speak Out
Lesage, Julia, Abby L. Ferber, Debbie Storrs, Donna Wong
Rowman & Littlefield, Publishers, Lanham, MD
2002
From the Publisher
In Making a Difference, students of color relate their first-hand experiences with educational systems and campus living conditions. Their narratives provide an insider perspective useful to anyone working on diversity issues who is trying to improve institutional culture and policy. The contextualizing essays following the student narratives are written by academics and student affairs professionals who draw links between issues...
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"Faculty Diversity: Too Little For Too Long"
Trower, Cathy A., and Richard P. Chait
Harvard Magazine 104, no. 4 (2002): 33-38
2002
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Diversity Challenged: Evidence on the Impact of Affirmative Action
Orfield, Gary, ed.
Harvard Education Pub. Group, Cambridge, MA
2001
From the Publisher
In the courts and in referenda campaigns, affirmative action in college admissions is under full-scale attack. Though it was designed to help resolve a variety of serious racial problems, affirmative action's survival may turn on just one question--whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in deciding whom to admit to colleges and universities. Diversity...
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Writing in Multicultural Settings
Severino, Carol, Juan C. Guerra, and Johnnella E. Butler, eds.
Modern Language Association, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
The twenty essays and four responses ("cross-talks") in this volume, the fifth in the Research and Scholarship in Composition series, confront the challenges presented by the racial, ethnic, class, gender, religious, age, and physical-ability differences among today's writing students. The contributors, who teach in classrooms and writing centers at a variety of private and public institutions, discuss their immersion in students'...
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Classroom in Conflict: Teaching Controversial Subjects in a Diverse Society
Williams, John A.
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
1994
From the Publisher
This book transcends recent debates about political correctness to address the underlying problems of teaching controversial subjects in the college and university history classroom. The author criticizes both sides of the debate, rejecting, on the one hand, calls for a uniform, chronological history curriculum and, on the other hand, claims that only ethnic or racial "insiders" are qualified to teach about their communities....
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Making Diversity Work on Campus: A Research-Based Perspective
Milem, Jeffrey F., Mitchell J. Chang, and Anthony Lising Antonio
Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C.
2005
From the Publisher
The authors discuss recent empirical evidence, gathered on behalf of the University of Michigan Supreme Court defense, demonstrating the educational benefits of diverse learning environments. These are environments that must be intentionally planned and nurtured, where diversity is conceived of as a process toward better learning and not merely an outcome that one can check off a list. Included are numerous suggestions for how...
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Higher Education and the Color Line: College Access, Racial Equity, and Social Change
Orfield, Gary, Patricia Marin, and Catherine L. Horn, editors
Harvard Education Press, Cambridge, MA
2005
From the Publisher
This timely and comprehensive book outlines the agenda for achieving racial justice in higher education in the next generation. It focuses on the racial transformation of higher education and the structural barriers that perpetuate racial stratification in colleges and universities--and beyond. Taking on topical issues such as shifting patterns of financial aid, the growing importance of community colleges, and identifying model...
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Building Bridges for Women of Color in Higher Education: A Practical Guide for Success
Battle, Conchita and Chrontrese M. Doswell, editors
University Press of America, Lanham, MD
2004
From the Publisher
Building Bridges for Women of Color in Higher Education is designed to create a forum for synthesizing collective voices from women of color in academia. This book will serve as a professional development tool for academicians, both embarking upon and maintaining careers in higher education.
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The Multicultural Campus: Strategies for Transforming Higher Education
Valverde, Leonard A. and Louis A. Castenell Jr.
AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA
1998
From the Publisher
The Multicultural Campus brings together administrators, faculty, and students to offer strategies that will alter the academic environment of the future. Hispanic, African, and Asian American educational leaders examine the obstacles they have faced, as minorities, climbing up the predominantly white career ladder in American universities. Firsthand accounts show how change on governance, executive, faculty, and curricula levels...
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Women and Minority Faculty in the Academic Workplace : Recruitment, Retention, and Academic Culture
Aguirre, Adalberto, Jr.
ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report Volume 27, no. 6, George Washington Univ. Press, Washington, D.C.
2000
From the Publisher
An ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report. This report's theoretical approach,...argumentation,...and presentation provide valuable insight into one of the major issues facing higher education. The manuscript's strength [lies in the detailed descriptions of the experiences of women and minority faculty. The report will be of great value not only to decision makers on individual campuses, but also for those policy makers at the state...
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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States
Rothenberg, Paula S.
Worth Publishers, New York, NY
2001
From the Publisher
Like its preceding editions, this fourth edition of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study undertakes a study of race, gender, and sexuality within the context of class. With 28 new readings and 5 revised readings, this edition also contains an entirely new section entitled "'Us' and 'Them': Becoming an American." This section examines the ways in which the concept of "citizen" has been constructed...
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"Social Class and Student Learning"
Rhem, James
The National Teaching and Learning Forum 7, no. 5 (1998): 1-4
1998
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"Blue Collar, Crimson Blazer: Recollections of Class on Campus"
Mar, M. Elaine
Harvard Magazine 98, no. 2 (1995): 47-51
1995
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"A Carpenter's Daughter: A Working Class Woman in Higher Education"
Christopher, Renny
in This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics From the Working Class (Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1995), 137-150
1995
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"Common Instructional Problems in the Multicultural Classroom"
Jenkins, Carol A., and Deborah L. Bainer
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching 2 (1991): 77-88
1991
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"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations About Race
Tatum, Beverly Daniel
Basic Books, New York, NY
1997
From the Publisher
In 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?' And Other Conversations About Race, Dr. Tatum provides us with a new way of thinking and talking about race through the lens of racial identity. She explains that all of us have a racial identity and must strive to affirm it. For people of color, the development of a constructive racial identity requires being able to recognize and reject the bombardment of negative...
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Educating Culturally Responsive Teachers
Villegas, Ana Maria and Tamara Lucas
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
2002
From the Publisher
Offering a conceptual framework and practical strategies for teacher preparation in schools with increasingly diverse racial and ethnic student populations, this book presents a coherent approach to educating culturally responsive teachers. The authors focus on the importance of recruiting and preparing a diverse teaching force, as they propose a vision for restructuring the teacher education curriculum, reconceiving the pedagogy...
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Where We Stand: Class Matters
bell hooks
Routledge, New York, NY
2000
From the Publisher
Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection - personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest - on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them.
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How Minority Students Experience College: Implications for Planning and Policy
Watson, Lemuel W.
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2002
From the Publisher
Have three decades of integration and multicultural initiatives in higher education delivered a better education to all students? Are majority and minority students reaping similar benefits, specifically in predominantly white colleges? Do we know what a multicultural campus should look like, and how to design one that is welcoming to all students and promotes a learning environment?
Through a unique qualitative study...
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Beyond Affirmative Action: Reframing the Context of Higher Education
Ibarra, Robert A.
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI
2001
From the Publisher
A century ago, universities were primarily in the business of molding upper-class young men for the professions. The world has changed, and universities have been forced to keep pace by experimenting with affirmative action, curriculum overhauls, part-time degree programs, and the like. But at the core of the modern university establishment is an ingrained academic culture that has operated in the same ways for centuries, contends...
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"Center to Margin: Dynamics in a Global Classroom"
De Danaan, Llyn
Women's Studies Quarterly 18, no. 1 & 2 (1990): 135-144
1990
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African American Men in College
Cuyjet, Michael J., and Associates
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2006
From the Publisher
African American Men in College is a much-needed resource that includes examples of real-world programs and activities to enhance academic success in the college environment for African American men. The examples are collected from a variety of institutions across the country.With contributions from leading practitioners and scholars in the field, African American Men in College explores the factors that promote a climate of...
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