Making a Difference University Students of Color Speak Out |
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| Editor:
| Lesage, Julia
Ferber, Abby L.
Storrs, Debbie
Wong, Donna |
| ISBN: | 978-1-306-15722-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $36.99 |
Book Description:
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In Making a Difference, students of color relate their first-hand experiences with educational systems and campus living conditions. Their narratives provide an insider perspective useful to anyone working on diversity issues who is trying to improve institutional culture and policy. The contextualizing essays following the student narratives are written by academics and student affairs professionals who draw links between issues of institutional access, recruitment and retention of...
More DescriptionIn Making a Difference, students of color relate their first-hand experiences with educational systems and campus living conditions. Their narratives provide an insider perspective useful to anyone working on diversity issues who is trying to improve institutional culture and policy. The contextualizing essays following the student narratives are written by academics and student affairs professionals who draw links between issues of institutional access, recruitment and retention of students and faculty of color, curriculum changes, teaching strategies especially for teaching whiteness and racial identity formation, campus climate, and the relation between an individual institution's history of dealing with race to developments in public policy."