I have a number of articles on diversity (my favorite topic) to share today: Diversity Offices Aren’t What They Used to Be: Ronald Taylor, a sociologist who became a top diversity officer at the University of Connecticut, had built one of the broadest campus-diversity offices in the country by 2008. UConn’s Office of Multicultural and International … Continue reading
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Proposed Strategy for Community Colleges: Court Upper Income Students
Usually when a call is made for more diversity on campus, it entails increasing the proportion of poor students and students of color at selective institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees. But at a press conference on Thursday, a group of thought leaders called for a different type of diversity at institutions that grant associate’s degrees. … Continue reading
Teaching While Gay
I am one of dozens of professors who have been teaching a yearlong course called the “Common Intellectual Experience” at Ursinus College. All of our first-year students take the course simultaneously, grouped into classes of approximately 16, each led by a different professor. They read the same books at the same time, write papers with … Continue reading
Encounters With Diversity, on Campuses and in Course Work, Bolster Critical-Thinking Skills
Worries about the quality of undergraduate education tend to be magnified by concerns about the increasing diversity of students entering college. Many colleges are already struggling to adequately teach students and to document their learning to the public. How well will those institutions be able to meet the needs of tomorrow’s students, who will hail … Continue reading
Recruiters at Black Colleges Break From Tradition
Katy Daugherty enrolled at Tennessee State University because of the school’s flexible daytime, evening and online classes and its new urban-studies program. Once on campus at this historically black college, where more than 70% of the students are African-American, Ms. Daugherty, 29, who is white, became the minority. “It was definitely different, having grown up … Continue reading
