ABSTRACT
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 definition of diversity in education, or in relation to singular topics like access to higher education, financial aid, and affirmative action. By contrast, Diversity in American Higher Education captures in one volume the wide range of critical issues that comprise the current discourse on diversity on the college campus in its broadest sense.
This edited collection explores:
- legal perspectives on diversity and affirmative action
- higher education's relationship to the deeper roots of K-12 equity and access
- policy, politics, and practice's effects on students, faculty, and staff.
Bringing together the leading experts on diversity in higher education scholarship, Diversity in American Higher Education redefines the agenda for diversity as we know it today.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|41 pages
The K–12 Pipeline: Impacts on Educational Equity
chapter 1|16 pages
Ethnic and Social Class Disparities in Academic Skills
part II|54 pages
The Diversity Imperative: Postsecondary Institutional and Legal Ramifications
chapter 7|17 pages
The Official Organization of Diversity in American Higher Education
part III|100 pages
Understanding Progress and Continuing Challenges in American Higher Education
chapter 13|13 pages
Conservative Critics and Conservative College Students
chapter 15|10 pages
Experiences of Exclusion and Marginalization
part IV|69 pages
Future Implications for Diversity: Practice, Policy, and the Law