Unleashing suppressed voices on college campuses : diversity issues in higher education / edited by O. Gilbert Brown, Kandace G. Hinton, Mary Howard-Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, O. Gilbert.

Hinton, Kandace G.

Howard-Hamilton, Mary F.

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Series:

Higher ed ; v. 19.

Higher ed ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teaching--Social aspects--United States.

College teaching.

College teachers--United States--Social conditions.

College teachers.

Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Social conditions.

College teaching--Social aspects.

United States.

Administration.

Minorities--Education (Higher)--United States.

Minorities.

Minorities--Education (Higher).

Education, Higher--United States.

Education, Higher.

Discrimination in higher education--United States.

Discrimination in higher education.

Physical Description:

vii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2007]

Contents:

Unleashing suppressed voices at colleges and universities: the role of case studies in understanding diversity in higher education

Student development and teaching

Using cases for teaching and learning

Institutional mission, leadership, and racial diversity

Case # 1 Collegiate desegregation: can historically black colleges and universities maintain their mission and identity in the midst of desegregating?

Case # 2 Oppressive or educational? A case of controversial campus artifacts

Case # 3 In the name of honor: impact of American Indian mascots at institutions of higher education

Case #4 Organizational constraints: the impact on facilities usage

Case # 5 Conflict in the midst of culture: the transition from cultural center to multicultural center

Case # 6 Doing the right thing when caught in the cross fire

Case # 7 Where do South Asian American women administrators fit in?: the case of Jasmine Kaur at mega university

New challenges facing faculty

Case # 8 Affirmative action and faculty hiring

Case # 9 Implementing diversity initiatives in a challenging organizational climate

Case # 10 Neo-racism/neo-discrimination and faculty hiring: chronicling the perpetuation of racial privilege

Case # 11 "Tick-tock": the convergence of the biological and tenure clock in the lives of academic women

Case # 12 Over-commitment as a way of life for faculty and graduate students of color: a systemic (and personal) issue

Case # 13 Sin fronteras: negotiating administrative roles in higher education as a woman of color

Case # 14 Minorities are encouraged to apply ...but we are hiring the most qualified

Case # 15 Perfecting the status quo

Emerging diversity populations

Case # 16 A special case of diversity: students with disabilities in higher education

Case # 17 Faith in the academy: developing religious diversity in a Judeo-Christian dominant culture

Case # 18 Asian American and Pacific Islander students: a displaced minority?

Case # 19 Higher education in transition: gender identity on college campuses

Case # 20 LGBTQ: finding our place

Student affairs and enrollment management

Case # 21 Student affairs unit's stepchildren: black Greek letter organizations receive unsatisfactory advising

Case # 22 Blue diamond university campus climate and student life: becoming Greek

Case # 23 Devine University

Case # 24 Set up for failure?

Case # 25 Identity development and transition issues in the first-year experience

Case # 26 Separate but unequal: the case of a black alumni association

Case # 27 Student-athlete or athlete-student?

Case # 29 faculty development issues in a department of black studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

0820481335

9780820481333

OCLC:

62878693