The Racial crisis in American higher education / edited by Philip G. Altbach and Kofi Lomotey ; foreword by Clark Kerr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Altbach, Philip G.

Lomotey, Kofi.

Series:

SUNY series, frontiers in education.

SUNY series, frontiers in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Minorities.

College integration--United States.

College integration.

Universities and colleges--United States--Case studies.

Universities and colleges.

United States--Race relations--Case studies.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Across the country our universities and colleges continue to be beset by incidences of racial turmoil on campus. The first contemporary serious collection of articles on this topic, this book goes beyond rhetoric to examine the causes and impact of campus racial tensions both by examining some key university case studies and by investigating some of the underlying elements of the crisis. In order to raise the consciousness of the entire university community to the import of these concerns the authors focus both on current research and on the flashpoints of controversy. The first part of the volume deals with broader issues relating to the academic community and to the curriculum. The overarching issues including debates about affirmative action, and admissions policies are considered as well as the difficulties of recruitment, retention, and campus life for Afro-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American faculty. Studies of some of the campuses which have recently experienced a heightening of racial tension including Columbia, Stanford, Arizona State, and Cornell are provided. Philip G. Altbach is Professor and Director of the Comparative Education Center at State University of New York at Buffalo, and author of The Knowledge Context: Comparative Perspectives on the Distribution of Knowledge , also published by SUNY Press. Kofi Lomotey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Organization, Administration and Policy at State University of New York at Buffalo, editor of Going to School: The African-American Experience , also published by SUNY Press, and author of African-American Principals: School Leadership and Success .

Contents:

CONTENTS; FOREWORD by CLARK KERR; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART 1: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES; 1. The Racial Dilemma in American Higher Education by PHILIP G. ALTBACH; 2. The Changing Demographics: Problems and Opportunities by LEWIS C. SOLMON AND TAMARA L. WINGARD; 3. Racism and the Model Minority: Asian-Americans in Higher Education by SUCHENG CHAN AND LING-CHI WANG; 4. Race Relations on Campus: An Administrative Perspective by ALAN COLÓN; 5. The Undergraduate Curriculum and the Issue of Race: Opportunities and Obligations by LEON BOTSTEIN

6. Student Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Addressing Underrepresentation by WILLIAM T. TRENT; PART 2: FACULTY ISSUES; 7. Black Faculty in Academia by KENNETH W. JACKSON; 8. Making the Short List: Black Candidates and the Faculty Recruitment Process by ROSLYN ARLIN MICKELSON AND MELVIN L. OLIVER; 9. Practices of the Academy: Barriers to Access for Chicano Academics by MARÍA DE LA LUZ REYES AND JOHN J. HALCÓN; 10. White Faculty Struggling with the Effects of Racism by JOSEPH KATZ; PART 3: CASE STUDIES; 11. Columbia University: Individual and Institutional Racism by ERIC L. HIRSCH

12. Beyond Recruitment and Retention: The Stanford Experience by SALLY COLE; 13. Race Relations and Attitudes at Arizona State University by LEONARD GORDON; 14. Cornell Twenty Years Later by WILLIAM D. GUROWITZ; CONCLUSION by KOFI LOMOTEY; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-7914-9464-0

OCLC:

923396758