Diversity in American Higher Education: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach

Front Cover
Diversity in American Higher Education
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Lisa M. Stulberg and Sharon Lawner Weinberg
Section I: The K–12 Pipeline: Impacts on Educational Equity
	1. Ethnic and Social Class Disparities in Academic Skills: Their Origins and Consequences: Meredith Phillips
	2. Inside the K–12 Pipeline for Black and Latino Students: Amanda E. Lewis and Michelle J. Manno
	3. Testing, No Child Left Behind, and Educational Equity: Linda Darling-Hammond
Section II: The Diversity Imperative: Postsecondary Institutional and Legal Ramifications
	4. A Long View on “Diversity”: A Century of American College Admissions Debates: Lisa M. Stulberg and Anthony S. Chen
	5. The Diversity Imperative in Elite Admissions: Mitchell L. Stevens and Josipa Roksa
	6. The Diversity Rationale: Its Limitations for Educational Practice: Mitchell J. Chang and María C. Ledesma
	7. The Official Organization of Diversity in American Higher Education: A Retreat from Race?: anthony lising antonio and Chris Gonzalez Clarke
Section III: Understanding Progress and Continuing Challenges in American Higher Education
	8. Trends in the Education of Underrepresented Racial Minority Students: Peter Teitelbaum
	9. Gender Equity in Higher Education: Claudia Buchmann and Thomas A. DiPrete
	10. LGBT Students, Faculty, and Staff: Past, Present, and Future Directions: Debbie Bazarsky and Ronni Sanlo
	11. Identifying Talent, Interrupting the Usual: Diversifying the Faculty: Daryl G. Smith
	12. Asian Americans and Diversity Talk: The Limits of the Numbers Game: Dana Takagi
	13. Conservative Critics and Conservative College Students: Variations in Discourses of Exclusion: Amy J. Binder and Kate Wood
	14. Explaining Professors’ Politics: Is It a Matter of Self-Selection?: Neil Gross and Catherine Cheng
	15. Experiences of Exclusion and Marginalization: A Study at the Individual Student Level: Bonita London, Vanessa Anderson, and Geraldine Downey
Section IV: Future Implications for Diversity: Practice, Policy, and the Law
	16. HBCUs: Continued Relevance in the New Century: Sarah Willie-LeBreton
	17. The Role of Women’s Colleges in the Twenty-First Century: Leslie Miller-Bernal
	18. The New Financial Aid Policies: Their Impact on Access and Equity for Low-Income Students: Bridget Terry Long
	19. Improving Assessments of Faculty Diversity: Sharon Lawner Weinberg
	20. New Legal Perspectives: Implications for Diversity in the Post-Grutter Era: Lia Epperson
Index