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Promise and Dilemma Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education.

"Promise and Dilemma gathers the reflections of a group of leading educators on whether and how objectives of diversity, equity, and excellence can be simultaneously pursued. Empirical in orientation, these essays focus on constructive proposals and on the role of social and political consensus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lowe, Eugene Y.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1999.
Colección:The William G. Bowen Ser.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Part-I
  • One: Promise and Dilemma
  • Part- II
  • Two: Promoting High Academic Achievement among Non-Asian Minorities, L. Scott Miller
  • Three: A Threat in the Air
  • Four: A Practitioner's View from Texas
  • Five: Assessment and Student Diversity
  • Part- III
  • Six: Equity and Excellence
  • Strange Bedfellows? A Case Study of South African Higher Education, Mamphela Ramphele
  • Seven: Facing the Dilemmas of Difference
  • Eight: Problematics of Affirmative Action
  • Nine: What a University Can Learn and Teach about Conflict and Difference
  • Epilogue
  • Index