Occupying the academy : just how important is diversity work in higher education? /
This volume uses a critical theory framework to document, as institutional case studies, the experiences of equity/diversity scholar-practitioners in higher education across the United States in their efforts to negotiate, survive, and thrive in their roles and related work.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated,
[2012]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- The Permanence of Diversity
- La Permanencia de la Diversidad
- Occupying Academia, Reaffirming Diversity
- Stories from the Chief Diversity Officer Frontlines
- Case 1: Extra, Extra, Read All About It!
- Case 2: Balancing Act
- Case 3: Deconstructing Hope
- Case 4: Transforming Lives and Communities
- Case 5: Southern Predominantly White Institutions, Targeted Students, and the Intersectionality of Identity
- Stories from the Mid-Level Administrator Frontlines
- Case 6: The Myth of Institutionalizing Diversity
- Case 7: Swimming up Mainstream
- Case 8: The Search for Questions and Tellings of Silenced Students
- Case 9: The Evolution of a Campus
- Case 10: The Unmet Promise
- Stories from the Faculty Frontlines
- Case 11: "Just (Don't) Do It!"
- Case 12: Déjà Vu
- Case 13: "Isn't Affirmative Action Illegal?"
- Case 14: Equity at the Fringes
- Case 15: On the Battlefield for Social Justice in the Education of Teachers
- So What? Who Cares? And What's Our Point about Diversity?
- Carta al lector
- An Open Letter
- Afterword
- References
- About the Editors and Contributors.