Occupying the Academy (eBook, ePUB)

Just How Important Is Diversity Work in Higher Education?
Redaktion: Clark, Christine; Brimhall-Vargas, Mark; Fasching-Varner, Kenneth J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 conservative-and the power bases they represent-are 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442212749
• Artikelnr.: 38307565

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Sonia Nieto The Permanence of Diversity Mark Brimhall-Vargas,
Christine Clark, and Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner La Permanencia de la
Diversidad Mark Brimhall-Vargas, Christine Clark, y Kenneth J.
Fasching-Varner   Occupying Academia, Re-Affirming Diversity Christine
Clark, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, and Mark Brimhall-Vargas Stories from
the Chief Diversity Officer Frontlines Bailey Jackson Case 1: Extra, Extra,
Read All About It! Diversity Soul-ed Out (and Sold/Out) Here Christine
Clark Case 2: Balancing Act: A Contextual Case Analysis on Re-Centering
Diversity in the Midst of Social and Economic Fluctuations Katrice A.
Albert and Marco J. Barker Case 3: Deconstructing Hope: A Chief Diversity
Officer's Dilemma in the Obama Era A. Leslie Anderson Case 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 Ferguson Case 5: Southern Predominantly White Institutions,
Targeted Students, and the Intersectionality of Identity: Two Case Studies
Allison Daniel Anders, James M. DeVita, and Steven Thurston Oliver Stories
from the Mid-Level Administrator Frontlines Bailey Jackson Case 6: The Myth
of Institutionalizing Diversity: Structures and the Covert Decisions they
Make Mark Brimhall-Vargas Case 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 Wolfgram Case 8: The Search for Questions and Tellings of
Silenced Students Douglas J. Loveless and Bryant Griffith Case 9: The
Evolution of a Campus: From the Seat of the Civil War to a Seat on the
Freedom Rides Shaunna Payne Gold and Leah K. Cox Case 10: The Unmet
Promise: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of the Rise of an African American
Studies Program  Michael E. Jennings Stories from the Faculty Frontlines
Bailey Jackson Case 11: "Just (Don't) Do It!" Tensions Between Articulated
Commitments and Action at The ACME State University Kenneth J.
Fasching-Varner and Vanessa Dodo Seriki Case 12: Déjà Vu:Dynamism of Racism
in Policies and Practices Aimed at Alleviating Discrimination Shirley
Mthethwa-Sommers Case 13: "Isn't Affirmative Action Illegal?" Eugene
Oropeza Fujimoto Case 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. Yee Case 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 Hayes So What? Who
Cares? And What's Our Point About Diversity? Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell
Carta Abierta: Una Lamada para Ocupar Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Christine
Clark, y Mark Brimhall-Vargas An Open Letter: A Call to Occupy Kenneth J.
Fasching-Varner, Christine Clark, and Mark Brimhall-Vargas Afterword Damon
A. Williams References Editor and Contributor Biographies Index