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Maori and Pasifika Higher Education Horizons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Maori and Pasifika Higher Education Horizons

Rarely have Pasifika writers come together to share their experiences in this field. Focusing on the past, current and future status and success of Maori and Pasifika peoples in tertiary education within Aotearoa New Zealand, this volume covers diverse issues from the countries colonial history, to student engagement with new technology.

Infusing Undergraduate Research into Historically Black Colleges and Universities Curricula
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Infusing Undergraduate Research into Historically Black Colleges and Universities Curricula

Undergraduate Research is any effort undertaken by an undergraduate that advances their academic knowledge and leads to new scholarly insights. This volume tells the story of undergraduate research programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities from the voices of faculty mentors, student mentees and UGR program directors and coordinators.

Journeys of Black Women in Academe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Journeys of Black Women in Academe

Journeys of Black Women in Academe provides lessons that are instructive to faculty and administrators across race and gender boundaries relative to the successes and challenges that African American women continue to experience in academia.

Underserved Populations at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Underserved Populations at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

This book focuses on the experiences of underserved student and faculty at historically Black colleges and universities. Encompassing institutional supports, identity development, and socialization patterns, it explores how “outsider” perspectives will impact future research and practice, while also emphasizing issues of diversity and inclusion.

The Coercive Community College
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

The Coercive Community College

Few studies address workplace bullying in American higher education. Leah P.Hollis, EdD, author of Bully in the Ivory Tower addressed the issue of workplace bullying in four-year institutions. This volume, The Coercive Community College, replicates the study to reveal that 64% of community college respondents are affected by workplace bullying.

Educational Mobilities and Internationalised Higher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 149

Educational Mobilities and Internationalised Higher Education

Higher education increasingly entails a crossing of national, linguistic and cultural boundaries. Recent years have seen significant expansion in the sector around transnational education and online learning, with students, academic staff, educational programmes and even institutions all ever-more mobile. This expansion is usually seen in unproblematic terms, with economic growth the main priority in view. The challenge that is entailed in pursuing social justice in the face of such global expansion, however, should not be underestimated. This book subjects to critical scrutiny the uncertainties that are associated with internationalised higher education. It explores how the agency of teache...

Continuing the Journey to Reposition Culture and Cultural Context in Evaluation Theory and Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

Continuing the Journey to Reposition Culture and Cultural Context in Evaluation Theory and Practice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-12-01
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  • Publisher: IAP

Racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity has become of global importance in places where many never would have imagined. Increasing diversity in the U.S., Europe, Africa, New Zealand, and Asia strongly suggests that a homogeneity-based focus is rapidly becoming an historical artifact. Therefore, culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) should no longer be viewed as a luxury or an option in our work as evaluators. The continued amplification of racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity and awareness among the populations of the U.S. and other western nations insists that social science researchers and evaluators inextricably engage culturally responsive approaches in their wo...

Black Males and Intercollegiate Athletics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Black Males and Intercollegiate Athletics

This volume focuses on the issues African American males face not only as participants in athletic competition as student-athletes but also as coaches, administrators, and academic support staff. It will serve as a valuable resource for educational policy makers, especially athletic association personnel (i.e. NCAA), and other constituents.

Campus Diversity Triumphs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Campus Diversity Triumphs

This book provides insightful accounts into the diversity program successes and promising practices by diversity officers working on college and university campuses in the United States.