Diversity in American Higher Education: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach

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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