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Transforming the Academy: Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
Sarah Willie-Lebreton (Ed.)
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Description for Transforming the Academy: Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
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In recent decades, American universities have begun to tout the “diversity” of their faculty and student bodies. But what kinds of diversity are being championed in their admissions and hiring practices, and what kinds are being neglected? Is diversity enough to solve the structural inequalities that plague our universities? And how might we articulate the value of diversity in the first place? Transforming the Academy begins to answer these questions by bringing together a mix of faculty—male and female, cisgender and queer, immigrant and native-born, tenured and contingent, white, black, multiracial, and other—from public and private universities across the United States. Whether describing contentious power dynamics within their classrooms or recounting protests that occurred on their campuses, the book’s contributors offer bracingly honest inside accounts of both the conflicts and the learning experiences that can emerge from being a representative of diversity. The collection’s authors are united by their commitment to an ideal of the American university as an inclusive and transformative space, one where students from all backgrounds can simultaneously feel intellectually challenged and personally supported. Yet Transforming the Academy also offers a wide range of perspectives on how to best achieve these goals, a diversity of opinion that is sure to inspire lively debate.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813565088
SKU
V9780813565088
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About Sarah Willie-Lebreton (Ed.)
SARAH WILLIE-LEBRETON is a professor of sociology at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she has coordinated the Black Studies Program, served as associate provost, and chaired the college’s Task Force on Sexual Misconduct. She is also the author of Acting Black: College, Identity, and the Performance of Race.
Reviews for Transforming the Academy: Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
"This inspiring book wonderfully fuses scholarship, personal experiences, and pragmatism, offering penetrating analyses of the challenges and benefits of living and teaching diversity and identifying conditions needed for transformation."
Caroline Hodges Persell
author of Education and Inequality: The Roots and Results of Stratification in America's Schools
"Transforming the Academy chronicles the meaning behind the sweeping changes in college classroom diversity, the benefits that greater diversity brings to educational institutions, and the unique challenges faced by groups historically shut out from post-secondary education. This book is required reading for ANYONE who works in higher education or is preparing someone to attend college."
Charles Gallagher
author of Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race
"Taken together, these personal narratives provide powerful, often moving, evidence of the continuing struggle for greater inclusivity and diversity on US campuses ... The contributors to this volume, mostly young and female, should be commended for opening their academic lives to help open our eyes to the ongoing need for change."
H-Teach
"A remarkably cohesive whole with themes that transcend individual anecdotes or identity markers. This is a book, as Willie-LeBreton proposes, that has the potential to shed light where it is needed, to bring people together under a common purpose, and to celebrate the work people are already doing to help their campuses fulfill the promise of diversity."
Harvard Educational Review
Caroline Hodges Persell
author of Education and Inequality: The Roots and Results of Stratification in America's Schools
"Transforming the Academy chronicles the meaning behind the sweeping changes in college classroom diversity, the benefits that greater diversity brings to educational institutions, and the unique challenges faced by groups historically shut out from post-secondary education. This book is required reading for ANYONE who works in higher education or is preparing someone to attend college."
Charles Gallagher
author of Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race
"Taken together, these personal narratives provide powerful, often moving, evidence of the continuing struggle for greater inclusivity and diversity on US campuses ... The contributors to this volume, mostly young and female, should be commended for opening their academic lives to help open our eyes to the ongoing need for change."
H-Teach
"A remarkably cohesive whole with themes that transcend individual anecdotes or identity markers. This is a book, as Willie-LeBreton proposes, that has the potential to shed light where it is needed, to bring people together under a common purpose, and to celebrate the work people are already doing to help their campuses fulfill the promise of diversity."
Harvard Educational Review