Diversity's Promise for Higher Education: Making It Work
- ISBN-10
- 1421438402
- ISBN-13
- 9781421438405
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-08-11
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Daryl G. Smith
Description
Drawing on forty years of diversity studies, this third edition ; includes more examples of how diversity is core to institutional excellence, academic achievement, and leadership development;; updates issues of language;; examines the current climate of race-based campus protest;; addresses the complexity of identity—and explains how to attend to the growing kinds of identities relevant to diversity, equity, and inclusion while not overshadowing the unfinished business of race, class, and gender.
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- 2020-08-11
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