Diversity & Democracy, Spring 2010

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Spring2010Vol.13No.2

Identity, Liberal Learning, Democracy: Reflections

Elements of personal identity provide the lenses through which students interpret and interact with the world on both local and global levels. This issue of Diversity & Democracy examines how colleges and universities can help students explore "big questions" related to issues of personal identity and implications of these questions for advancing the public good in a diverse democracy.

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Exploring Personal Identity for the Public Good

By Kathryn Peltier Campbell

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Identity, Liberal Learning, Democracy: Reflections

By Elizabeth Minnich, chair, American Philosophical Association Committee on Public Philosophy

Campus Diversity and Ethnic Identity Development

By Anna M. Ortiz, professor of educational leadership at California State University, Long Beach; and Silvia J. Santos, professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills

The Long Road to Truth: Haiti, Identity, and Knowledge in the Global Classroom

By Celeste Fraser Delgado, associate professor of English and academic coordinator of arts and humanities at Barry University's School of Adult and Continuing Education

Helping Students Explore Their Privileged Identities

By Diane J. Goodman, diversity consultant based in Nyack, New York, and adjunct faculty in the graduate school of education at the State University of New York-New Paltz

Exploring Religious Identity through Intergroup Dialogue

By Adrienne Dessel, associate codirector, the Program on Intergroup Relations; Kelly E. Maxwell, codirector, the Program on Intergroup Relations; Johanna Masse, doctoral student in higher education; and Elizabeth Ramus, religion dialogue facilitator and undergraduate student--all of the University of Michigan

Perspectives

Self-Exploration, Social Justice, and LGBTQ Autobiography

By John C. Hawley, professor of English at Santa Clara University

A Call to Professors with Invisible Disabilities

By Linda Kornasky, professor of English at Angelo State University

Campus Practice

Critical Service Learning as a Tool for Identity Exploration

By David M. Donahue, associate professor of education, Mills College; and Tania D. Mitchell, director of service learning and associate director of the undergraduate program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University

Arts and Humanities: For the Common Good

By Johnnella E. Butler, provost and vice president for academic affairs, Spelman College

Research Report

Stereotypes, Student Identity, and Academic Success

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