Diversity's Promise for Higher Education Making It Work

Name: Diversity's Promise for Higher Education Making It Work
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ISBN: 9781421405735

ISBN-10: 1421405733

ISBN-13: 9781421405735

Edition: 2012

Authors: Daryl G. Smith

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Daryl G. Smith's career has been devoted to studying and fostering diversity in higher education. She has witnessed and encouraged the evolution of diversity from an issue addressed sporadically on college campuses to an imperative if institutions want to succeed. In Diversity's Promise for Higher Education, she analyzes how diversity is practiced today and offers new recommendations for effecting lasting and meaningful change.Smith argues that in the next generation of work on diversity, student population mix and performance will no longer be acceptable indicators of an institution's diversity effectiveness. To become more relevant to society, the nation, and the world while remaining…

Book details

List price: $15.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 2/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Daryl G. Smith is a professor of education and psychology at Claremont Graduate University and author or coauthor of a number of books and articles, including Achieving Faculty Diversity: Debunking the Myths; Making a Real Difference with Diversity: A Guide to Institutional Change; Assessing Diversity on College and University Campuses; The Challenge of Diversity: Involvement or Alienation in the Academy?; and A Diversity Research Agenda: What More Do We Need to Know?



Preface



The Diversity Imperative



The National and Global Context for Diversity in Higher Education



The Role of Identity in Diversity



Reframing Diversity



A Diversity Framework for Higher Education: Inclusive and Differentiated



The Past Forty Years



Building Capacity by Interrupting the Usual



Identifying Talent: The Faculty



Working with and across Differences: Intergroup Relations and Identity



Student Learning and Success



What Will It Take?



Monitoring Progress on Diversity



Making Diversity Work: Recommendations and Conclusions


References


Index