Diversity in American Higher Education

Lisa M. Stulberg is Associate Professor of Educational Sociology at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.Sharon Lawner Weinberg is Professor of Applied Statistics and Psychology and former Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at New York University.

"Generally speaking, the book is an important addition to the growing number of recent texts on diversity in higher education. The book is fairly well organized, easy to follow, and written in a way that makes it accessible to a wide range of audiences."—Educational Researcher"Diversity in American Higher Education: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach is a multidimensional volume which addresses a number of issues including policies regarding the recruitment of diverse students and faculty and their experiences on college campuses." --Education Review"Diversity in American Higher Education provides an insightful and comprehensive examination of the complex issues that confront academia today. It is an invaluable resource that should be a required reading for educators who seek to understand the many challenges that accompany our nation's growing diversity."--Pedro A. Noguera, Executive Director, Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, New York University."This thoughtful, comprehensive, compelling book advances our longstanding national conversation about diversity and inclusion. A "Who’s Who" of leading scholars offers wide- ranging perspectives on the arc of diversity in higher education over time, across institutional contexts, and among different target groups.They bring "light and heat" to ongoing debates about the challenges and benefits of educational diversity on campus, asking how is diversity best defined, realized and experienced? A must read for serious scholars, students, and policy makers."--Walter R. Allen, Allan Murray Cartter Professor of Higher Education and Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles."Editors Lisa M. Stulberg, Sharon Lawner Weinberg, and their contributors do much to show how legal and institutional approaches to "diversity" shape policies and practices of schooling as well as the attitudes and actions of schools and the people associated with them. Their stated aim here is to make clear how conceptions of diversity – which shift with time and context – have real and important effects on institutions of higher education and on experiences in relation to them. They are, in many ways, successful in realizing this goal."—Teachers College Record

• Introduction, Lisa M. Stulberg and Sharon Lawner WeinbergI. The K-12 Pipeline: Impacts on Educational Equity1. Ethnic and Social Class Disparities in Academic Skills: Their Origins and Consequences, Meredith Phillips2. Inside the K-12 Pipeline for Black and Latino Students, Amanda E. Lewis and Michelle J. Manno3. Testing, No Child Left Behind, and Educational Equity, Linda Darling-HammondII. The Diversity Imperative: Postsecondary Institutional and Legal Ramifications4. A Long View on "Diversity": A Century of American College Admissions Debates, Lisa M. Stulberg and Anthony S. Chen5. The Diversity Imperative in Elite Admissions, Mitchell L Stevens and Josipa Roksa6. The Diversity Rationale: Its Limitations for Educational Practice, Mitchell J. Chang and María C. Ledesma7. The Official Organization of Diversity in American Higher Education: A Retreat from Race? anthony lising antonio and Chris Gonzalez ClarkeSection III. Understanding Progress and Continuing Challenges in American Higher Education 8. Trends in the Education of Underrepresented Racial Minority Students, Peter Teitelbaum9. Gender Equity in Higher Education, Claudia Buchmann and Thomas A. DiPrete10. LGBT Students, Faculty, and Staff: Past, Present, and Future Directions, Debbie Bazarsky and Ronni Sanlo11. Identifying Talent, Interrupting the Usual: Diversifying the Faculty, Daryl G. Smith12. Asian Americans and Diversity Talk: The Limits of the Numbers Game, Dana Takagi13. Conservative Critics and Conservative College Students: Variations in Discourses of Exclusion, Amy J. Binder and Kate Wood14. Explaining Professors’ Politics: Is It a Matter of Self-Selection? Neil Gross and Catherine Cheng15. Experiences of Exclusion and Marginalization: A Study at the Individual Student Level, Bonita London, Vanessa Anderson, and Geraldine DowneyIV. Future Implications for Diversity: Practice, Policy, and the Law16. HBCUs: Continued Relevance in the New Century, Sarah Willie-LeBreton17. The Role of Women’s Colleges in the 21st Century, Leslie Miller-Bernal18. The New Financial Aid Policies: Their Impact on Access and Equity for Low-Income Students, Bridget Terry Long19. Improving Assessments of Faculty Diversity, Sharon Lawner Weinberg20. New Legal Perspectives: Implications for Diversity in the Post-Grutter Era, Lia Epperson