Featured Topic:
The Borders of Opportunity: Immigration and Higher Education
By
Nancy "Rusty"
Barceló, vice president and vice provost for equity and diversity, University of Minnesota
As escalating demographic change and deepening economic recession collide, higher education has been caught in a "perfect storm." Institutions are tightening their belts and scrambling to keep their doors open to students from all walks of life. At the same time, the gates may be closing along the borders of our country and along the metaphorical borders between cultural groups as people in straitened circumstances revert to survival mode and "we" becomes "us versus them." Yet even and especially in these challenging times, it is our collective responsibility to be agents of change on behalf of social and economic justice. READ MORE
About This Issue:
This issue of Diversity & Democracy joins in the ongoing work of examining how immigration is transforming American higher education, and how higher education can transform the lives of new and established Americans. With a focus on questions of access and success at the crossroads between local and global, this issue's authors describe challenges facing American democracy as our demography shifts. Examining higher education's role in creating opportunity and educating for democratic participation, they suggest ways to begin building educational institutions that are as inclusive as the mythology of the "land of opportunity" suggests we might be.
In Every Issue:
Perspectives
Seeing Immigration through a Subjective Lens
International Migration and Brain Circulation
Campus Practice
Community Colleges as Critical Gateways for Immigrant Education
Building Bridges to Higher Education: The American Dream Academy
Research Report
Challenges and Avenues to Success for Immigrant Students
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Issue Highlights:
Teaching Students to Consider Immigration with Empathy
By
Miguel Vasquez, President's Distinguished Teaching Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University
Extending Our Investments: Higher Education Access for Undocumented Students
By
William Perez, assistant professor of education at Claremont Graduate University
Don't Leave Your Life at the Door: Ntxhais Hmoob of St. Kate's
By
Sia Vang, program coordinator, and Sharon Doherty, associate professor of women's studies and director, both at the Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women, St. Catherine University (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Teaching Immigration through Personal Connections
By
Margaret M. Chin, associate professor of sociology at Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
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