Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen How Diversity Works on Campus

Name: Learning to Speak, Learning to Listen How Diversity Works on Campus
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ISBN: 9780801476211

ISBN-10: 0801476216

ISBN-13: 9780801476211

Edition: 2010

Authors: Susan E. Chase

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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,…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Susan E. Chase is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Tulsa. She is author of Ambiguous Empowerment: The Work Narratives of Women School Superintendents and coauthor of Mothers and Children: Feminist Analyses and Personal Narratives .