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Debatable diversity : critical dialogues on change in American universities / Raymond V. Padilla and Miguel Montiel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Padilla, Raymond V.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
- Universities and colleges.
- Hispanic Americans--Education (Higher).
- Hispanic Americans.
- United States.
- Minorities--Education (Higher)--United States.
- Minorities.
- Minorities--Education (Higher).
- Universities and colleges--United States--Sociological aspects.
- Higher education and state--United States.
- Higher education and state.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Physical Description:
- xxxix, 276 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, [1998]
- Summary:
- In this timely and thought-provoking book, the authors engage each other and the reader in an ongoing dialogue questioning the purpose and role of the contemporary university as bureaucratic, corporate, and diversified.
- Written as a series of conversations between the authors, Debatable Diversity chronicles their own experiences as academic activists who struggled for decades to transform an American university system based more on entrepreneurship and the business model than on a dedication to the ideals set forth by a social awareness and support for civil rights that came out of the 1960s and early 1970s, a time when hope and faith in social change permeated college campuses. Instead, as Padilla and Montiel reveal, this commitment was never realized, and the lack of responsiveness of most American universities to the realities of shifting demographics and cultural diversity is the rule rather than the exception.
- Debatable Diversity challenges readers to reexamine the purposes, goals, and functions of the American university in light of the ongoing social transformation from modernity to postmodernity. Not only do the authors offer an insider's look at the inner workings of academia, but also of academic activism, with the goal of renewal and reconfiguration of the contemporary 'multiversity'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0847687309
- 0847687317
- OCLC:
- 37277431
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