Learning to speak, learning to listen : how diversity works on campus / Susan E. Chase.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chase, Susan E., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multicultural education--United States--Case studies.

Multicultural education.

Intercultural communication--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--Case studies.

Intercultural communication.

Minorities--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--Case studies.

Minorities.

Discrimination in higher education--United States--Case studies.

Discrimination in higher education.

College students--United States--Attitudes--Case studies.

College students.

Education, Higher--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.

Education, Higher.

United States--Race relations--Study and teaching (Higher)--Case studies.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

Over the past three decades, colleges and universities have committed to encouraging, embracing, and supporting diversity as a core principle of their mission. But how are goals for achieving and maintaining diversity actually met? What is the role of students in this mission? When a university is committed to diversity, what is campus culture like?In Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen, Susan E. Chase portrays how undergraduates at a predominantly white urban institution, which she calls "City University" (a pseudonym), learn to speak and listen to each other across social differences. Chase interviewed a wide range of students and conducted content analyses of the student newspaper, student government minutes, curricula, and website to document diversity debates at this university. Amid various controversies, she identifies a defining moment in the campus culture: a protest organized by students of color to highlight the university's failure to live up to its diversity commitments. Some white students dismissed the protest, some were hostile to it, and some fully engaged their peers of color.In a book that will be useful to students and educators on campuses undergoing diversity initiatives, Chase finds that both students' willingness to share personal stories about their diverse experiences and collaboration among student organizations, student affairs offices, and academic programs encourage speaking and listening across differences and help incorporate diversity as part of the overall mission of the university.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I. City University's Narrative Landscape

1. Diversity at City University

2. Conflicting Discourses

3. Race in CU's Narrative Landscape

Part II. Students' Personal Narratives

4. Learning to Speak

5. Learning to Listen

Part III. Students' Protest and Response

6. Creating a Voice of Protest

7. Walking on Eggshells (And Other Responses)

8. Doing the Work of Allies

Reflections

Epilogue

Appendixes

A. Note to People at CU

B. Methodological Issues

C. Interviewees and Interview Guides

D. Detailed Tables and Methods of Content Analysis

Notes

Selected References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801460319

080146031X

OCLC:

719389060