Transforming the Academy: Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy
Sarah Willie-Lebreton (Ed.)
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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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99-1
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more