Why Aren't We There Yet? : Taking Personal Responsibility for Creating an Inclusive Campus

Vasti Torres

ISBN 10: 1579224652 / ISBN 13: 9781579224653

Editore: Routledge, 2012

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The contributors to this book seek to offer new insights to improve student affairs, emphasising action that recognises this is a complex and multi-faceted process, and beginning with the assertion that, without recognising the influences of privilege and inequality, educators cannot promote truly welcoming environments. It focuses on guiding individuals and groups through learning how to have difficult conversations that lead us to act to create more just campuses, and provides illustrations of multiple ways to respond to difficult situations.

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• Titolo: Why Aren't We There Yet? : Taking Personal Responsibility for Creating an Inclusive Campus
• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1579224652
• ISBN 13: 9781579224653
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 235 L x 157 A x 16 P (millimetri) 235 millimetri di larghezza per 157 millimetri di altezza per 16 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 473 grammi

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Co-published with Despite seeming endless debate and public attention given to the issue for several decades, those committed to creating welcoming and engaging campus environments for all students recognize that there is considerably more work to be done, and ask “Why aren’t we there yet, and when will we be done?” While our campuses have evolved from being exclusionary and intolerant, and publicly espouse the objectives of being welcoming, accepting, affirming, and engaging, the data on admissions, retention, and graduation clearly indicate that these goals have not been achieved.The contributors to this book seek to offer new insights to improve student affairs, emphasizing action that recognizes this is a complex and multi-faceted process, and beginning with the assertion that, without recognizing the influences of privilege and inequality, we educators cannot promote truly welcoming environments. This book focuses on guiding individuals and groups through learning how to have difficult conversations that lead us to act to create more just campuses, and provides illustrations of multiple ways to respond to difficult situations. It advocates for engaging in fruitful dialogues regarding differing social identities including race, ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation, to lead readers through a process that advocates for justice, and for taking personal responsibility for contributing to the solution. The book is framed around the five elements of the process of engaging in difficult conversations that not only advocate for change but also create change: self knowledge, knowledge of and experiences with others, understanding historical and institutional contexts, understanding how to change the status quo, and transformative action.

Informazioni sull?autore

Vasti Torres is a Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE) and an Associate Faculty member of Latina/o Studies at University of Michigan. Jan Arminio is Professor and Chair, Department of Counseling and College Student Personnel, at Shippensburg University. Raechele L. Pope is Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy, at the Graduate School of Education, University of Buffalo.