Occupying the Academy (eBook)

Just How Important Is Diversity Work in Higher Education?

Mark Brimhall-Vargas, Christine Clark, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner (Herausgeber)

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2012
278 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1274-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume uses a critical theory framework to document, as institutional case studies, the experiences of equity/diversity scholar-practitioners in higher education across the United States in their efforts to negotiate, survive, and thrive in their roles and related work.

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In the wake of the election of President Obama, many diversity scholars and practitioners imagined that renewed commitments to educational equity and justice were just around the corner. Unfortunately, the opposite has become the Obama-era reality. Across the country, equity and diversity workers at all levels in university and colleges, but especially Chief Diversity Officers in public institutions, are under assault. Is this assault a result of a pre-meditated and carefully calculated conservative political agenda or the unfortunate consequence of how largely white, politically conservativeand the power bases they representare expressing their anger about the changing racial landscape in the United States? This volume explores and deconstructs the reasons for this assault from various perspectives. This volume also illustrates how the national assault on equity and diversity has resulted in a continuum. At one end are ';diversity-friendly' institutions that are benignly neglecting equity/diversity efforts because of state budget crises. At the other end of the spectrum are the deliberate efforts being made to systematically dismantle equity and diversity work in especially politically conservative states.

Autor

Christine Clark is professor and senior scholar for multicultural education, and founding vice president for diversity and inclusion at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Clark was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in México and Guatemala, where she conducted research on school and community violence.Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner is the Shirley B. Barton and Assistant Professor in elementary education at Louisiana State University. His areas of expertise include educational foundations, pre-service teacher development, reflective practice, literacy, second language development, critical race theory, culturally relevant pedagogy, and multicultural education.Mark Brimhall-Vargas is the associate director of the Office of Diversity Education and Compliance (ODEC), an arm of the Office of the President, and a visiting scholar for Multicultural Education and Organizational Development in the Center for Leadership and Organizational Change (CLOC), both at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Inhalt

ForewordSonia Nieto The Permanence of DiversityMark Brimhall-Vargas, Christine Clark, and Kenneth J. Fasching-VarnerLa Permanencia de la DiversidadMark Brimhall-Vargas, Christine Clark, y Kenneth J. Fasching-VarnerOccupying Academia, Re-Affirming Diversity Christine Clark, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, and Mark Brimhall-Vargas Stories from the Chief Diversity Officer FrontlinesBailey JacksonCase 1: Extra, Extra, Read All About It! Diversity Soul-ed Out (and Sold/Out) Here Christine ClarkCase 2: Balancing Act: A Contextual Case Analysis on Re-Centering Diversity in the Midst of Social and Economic FluctuationsKatrice A. Albert and Marco J. BarkerCase 3: Deconstructing Hope: A Chief Diversity Officer’s Dilemma in the Obama Era A. Leslie AndersonCase 4: Transforming Lives and Communities: Case Study of a Diversity and Community Engagement Portfolio at a Flagship Institution Gregory J. Vincent, Sherri L. Sanders, and S. Kiersten FergusonCase 5: Southern Predominantly White Institutions, Targeted Students, and the Intersectionality of Identity: Two Case StudiesAllison Daniel Anders, James M. DeVita, and Steven Thurston OliverStories from the Mid-Level Administrator Frontlines Bailey JacksonCase 6: The Myth of Institutionalizing Diversity: Structures and the Covert Decisions they MakeMark Brimhall-VargasCase 7: Swimming up Mainstream: Facing the Challenges to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion on a University of ACME, Regional Campus in Obama’s Era Virginia Lea, Hollace Anne Teuber, Glenda Jones, and Susan WolfgramCase 8: The Search for Questions and Tellings of Silenced StudentsDouglas J. Loveless and Bryant GriffithCase 9: The Evolution of a Campus: From the Seat of the Civil War to a Seat on the Freedom RidesShaunna Payne Gold and Leah K. CoxCase 10: The Unmet Promise: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of the Rise of an African American Studies Program Michael E. JenningsStories from the Faculty FrontlinesBailey JacksonCase 11: “Just (Don’t) Do It!” Tensions Between Articulated Commitments and Action at The ACME State UniversityKenneth J. Fasching-Varner and Vanessa Dodo SerikiCase 12: Déjà Vu:Dynamism of Racism in Policies and Practices Aimed at Alleviating Discrimination Shirley Mthethwa-SommersCase 13: “Isn’t Affirmative Action Illegal?” Eugene Oropeza FujimotoCase 14: Equity at the Fringes: The Continuing Peripheral Enactment of Equity and Diversity in the Preparation of K-12 Teachers Roderick L. Carey and Laura S. YeeCase 15: On the Battlefield for Social Justice in the Education of Teachers: The Dangers and Dangerousness of Challenging Whiteness in Predominantly White Institutions and Teacher Preparation Programs Brenda G. Juárez and Cleveland HayesSo What? Who Cares? And What’s Our Point About Diversity? Margaret-Mary Sulentic DowellCarta Abierta: Una Lamada para OcuparKennethJ. Fasching-Varner, Christine Clark, y Mark Brimhall-VargasAn Open Letter: A Call to OccupyKenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Christine Clark, and Mark Brimhall-VargasAfterwordDamon A. WilliamsReferencesEditor and Contributor Biographies Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.8.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-1274-8 / 1442212748
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-1274-9 / 9781442212749