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Diversity in American higher education : toward a more comprehensive approach /

Diversity has been a focus of higher education policy, law, and scholarship for decades, continually expanding to include not only race, ethnicity and gender, but also socioeconomic status, sexual and political orientation, and more. However, existing collections still tend to focus on a narrow defi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stulberg, Lisa M., Weinberg, Sharon L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Ethnic and social class disparities in academic skills: their origins and consequences / Meredith Phillips
  • Inside the K-12 pipeline for black and latino students / Amanda E. Lewis and Michelle J. Manno
  • Testing, no child left behind, and educational equity / Linda Darling-Hammond
  • A long view on "diversity": a century of American college admissions debates / Lisa M. Stulberg and Anthony S. Chen
  • The diversity imperative in elite admissions / Mitchell L. Stevens and Josipa Roksa
  • The diversity rationale: its limitations for educational practice / Mitchell J. Chang and Maria C. Ledesma
  • The official organization of diversity in American higher education: a retreat from race? / Anthony Lising Antonio and Chris Gonzalez Clarke
  • Trends in the education of underrepresented racial minority students / Peter Teitelbaum
  • Gender equity in higher education / Claudia Buchmann and Thomas A. DiPrete
  • LGBT students, faculty, and staff: past, present, and future directions / Debbie Bazarsky and Ronni Sanlo
  • Identifying talent, interrupting the usual: diversifying the faculty / Daryl G. Smith
  • Asian Americans and diversity talk: the limits of the numbers game / Dana Takagi
  • Conservative critics and conservative college students: variations in discourses of exclusion / Amy J. Binder and Kate Wood
  • Explaining professors' politics: is it a matter of self-selection? / Neil Gross and Catherine Cheng
  • Experiences of exclusion and marginalization: a study at the individual student level / Bonita London, Vanessa Anderson, and Geraldine Downey
  • HBCUs: continued relevance in the new century / Sarah Willie-LeBreton
  • The role of women's colleges in the twenty-first century / Leslie Miller-Bernal
  • The new financial aid policies: their impact on access and equity for low-income students / Bridget Terry Long
  • Improving assessments of faculty diversity / Sharon Lawner Weinberg
  • New legal perspectives: implications for diversity in the post-Grutter era / Lia Epperson.