Featured Topic:
Rethinking Educational Practices to Make Excellence Inclusive
By Alma Clayton-Pedersen, vice president for Education and Institutional Renewal, Association of American Colleges and Universities
November 4, 2008, was a defining moment in United States history. U.S. citizens elected a president who identifies as an African American Christian with a Muslim name, signaling great progress in race relations. Yet during his candidacy, Barack Obama could not highlight the unique strengths that his binational, biracial background would bring to the presidential role—nor underscore the broad worldview he has gained from contact with people of different backgrounds—without fear of alienating some constituencies. These realities suggest a nation divided between embracing its unique democratic ideals and succumbing to deep stratifications that are, in large part, reinforced by systemic educational inequities. Seeing this disjunction, those of us in higher education must continue to ask: What is the academy's role in preparing every college student to join in creating "a more perfect union"? READ MORE
About This Issue
To keep pace in today's complex and competitive global arena, American higher education must retire old notions of educational exclusivity and embrace new models of inclusive excellence. This issue of Diversity & Democracy explores how colleges and universities are building pathways to success using high-impact educational practices as stepping stones toward achievement for all students.
In Every Issue:
Perspectives
First-Year Learning Communities: A Student's Experience
Reframing Diversity as an Institutional Capacity
Campus Practice
Creating Change: Arts, Activism, and the Academy
Service Learning and Learning Communities: Promising Pedagogies
Research Report
Best Practices for Supporting College Access and Success
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Issue Highlights:
Outcomes of High-Impact Educational Practices: A Literature Review
By Jayne E. Brownell and Lynn E. Swaner
The First Year at LaGuardia Community College
By Paul Arcario
The Ralph Bunche Societies: Broadening Horizons, Expanding Opportunities
By Bethany S. Dickerson
Educational Practices that Foster Intercultural Competence
By Mark Salisbury and Kathleen Goodman
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