Diversity on Campus: A Reassessment of Current Strategies1
作者:
Grant B. Mindle,
Kenyon D. Bunch,
Carolyn Nicholas,
期刊:
Review of Policy Research
(WILEY Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 12,
issue 1‐2
页码: 25-46
ISSN:1541-132X
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1111/j.1541-1338.1993.tb00506.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The underrepresentation of minorities in higher education evokes a widely shared sense of urgency among educational policymakers. Allan Oster, president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, has described the persistent gap between minority and white participation rates as “[o]ne of the most pressing issues facing higher education today” (American Council on Education, 1988b, p. iv). Eliminating the gap and overcoming the other educational inequalities faced by minorities “is not an option, but a necessity; and the need is not eventual, it is immediate” (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990, p. 14). Failure to take timely and decisive action not only threatens the moral and intellectual integrity of higher education as a whole, but our nation's economic well‐being (American Council on Education, 1988b, p. 1). As officials at Smith College so eloquently said, “[i]t is no exaggeration to say that the future of the nation and the future of higher education depend on the ability of the educational establishment to become more inclusive” (Smith College, 19
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