| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 261 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Transforming Higher Education-Reflections on the Past and Possibilities for the Future -- Purposes of Higher Education in Steady Tension -- Progress, Constraints, and Potential for Transformation -- Reimagining Higher Education for the Next Generation -- References -- Chapter 2: The American University and the Struggle for Democracy -- Introduction -- Democracy in America -- Democracy and Higher Education -- What Can Be Done? -- Conclusion -- References |
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Chapter 3: Space, Place, and Power in the Neoliberal Academy: Reflections on Asian American Women and Leadership in The Chair -- Introduction -- Invisibility/Visibility and the Labor of Asian American Women's Leadership -- Refusing and Re-placing Spaces of Trauma -- Solidarities Through Networks of Belonging -- Conclusion: What Can Be? -- References -- Chapter 4: Equity and Efficacy in Teaching Effectiveness Assessment (TEA) -- Introduction -- Why Change TEA? Why Now? -- The Changing Context of Higher Education -- Actionable Data, Bias, and Statistical Meaninglessness |
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A Modest Proposal: TEA for Transformation Versus TEA for Status Quo -- Self and Peer Observation -- Self-Reflection -- Peer Observation -- Course Organization -- Context and Purpose -- Student and Community Engagement -- Teacher Presence -- Student Learning Assessment -- Student Perspectives -- Sample Student Perspective Survey -- Course Design -- Inclusion and Belonging -- Teacher Presence -- Engagement -- Assessment -- Modality and Context -- Global -- Extraordinary Commendations and Concerns -- Hard Choices and Obstacles -- References |
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Chapter 5: What Students, Whose Success? Reimagining the Transformation of Higher Education Through Critically Engaged Student Success Initiatives -- Introduction -- Positionality of the Authors -- The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) -- Multi-dimensional Perspectives from Stakeholders -- Institutional Gaps in Support and Transformative Possibilities -- At the Core: Financial Aid -- One-Stop Shop: Meeting Students' Basic Needs -- Basic Needs Support in the Fabric of the University -- Reimagining the Transformative Possibility of Higher Education -- References |
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Chapter 6: Transformative Mentoring Relationships: Engaging Student Voices to Create Emancipatory Change in Curriculum -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Defining Mentoring -- Importance of Graduate Faculty Mentors -- Challenges in Finding and Maintaining Supportive Graduate Mentorship -- Latina/o/x Graduate Students -- Theoretical Framework -- Methodology -- Findings -- Prioritizing Health and Wellness -- Advocating for Students Remotely -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 7: A Center for Sight and Sound: Connecting Media Representations to Critical Production Training -- Introduction |
| Summary |
This edited volume explores and deconstructs the possibilities of higher education beyond its initial purpose. The book contextualizes and argues for a more robust interrogation of persistent patterns of campus inequality driven by rapid demographic change, reduced public spending in higher education, and an increasingly polarized political landscape. It offers contemporary views and critiques ideas and practices such as micro-aggressions, implicit and explicit bias, and their consequences in reifying racial and gender-based inequalities on members of nondominant groups. The book also highlights coping mechanisms and resistance strategies that have enabled members of nondominant groups to contest primarily racial- and gender- based inequity. In doing so, it identifies new ways higher education can do what it professes to do better, in all ways, from providing real benefit to students and communities, while also setting a bar for society to more effectively realize its stated purpose and creed. Kenneth R. Roth is a Research Associate with the CHOICES program at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, where he examines access and equity issues in higher education, with particular emphasis on the challenges and paths to graduation experienced by students of color, particularly Black males. Felix Kumah-Abiwu is the Founding Director of the Center for African Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA. His research focuses on African American males/public education, the politics of development, political leadership, African security issues, elections and democratization in Africa, foreign policy analysis, and global narcotics policy. Zachary S. Ritter is Vice President of Leadership Development at the Jewish Federation in Los Angeles. Prior, he was Interim Associate Dean of Students at California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA. He also teaches social justice history at both California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA, and University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 29, 2022) |
| Subject |
Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- United States
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Minorities -- Education (Higher)
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Roth, Kenneth R., editor
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Kumah-Abiwu, Felix, editor
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Ritter, Zachary S., editor
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| ISBN |
9783031111242 |
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3031111249 |
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