Diversity & Democracy, Winter, 2014
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Winter2014Vol.17No.1

New Technologies: Implications for Higher Education's Democratic Mission

This issue of Diversity & Democracy explores the relationship between recent technology-driven trends and higher education's civic commitments and equity goals. The issue invites readers to reflect on how technological change is affecting higher education's work to educate all students for participation in the linked spheres of civic and economic life.

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From the Editor

By Kathryn Peltier Campbell

New Technologies

Technology, Education, Democracy: Elements of an Emerging Paradigm

By David Scobey, The New School for Public Engagement

Democratization of Education for Whom? Online Learning and Educational Equity

By Shanna Smith Jaggars, Teachers College, Columbia University

There's No App for Ending Racism: Theorizing the Civic in the Age of Disruption

By Dan Butin, Merrimack College

Campus Practice and Perspective

Using E-Portfolios to Support Transfer Student Success

By Karen Singer-Freeman, Linda Bastone, and Joseph Skrivanek—all of Purchase College, State University of New York

Story Matters: Meeting Actionable Community Needs in a Digital World

By Cindy O’Donnell-Allen, Colorado State University

Bringing Online and Residential Students Together for Engaged Civic Learning

By Laura van Assendelft, Mary Baldwin College

Overcoming Our Distance for Election Night

By Marie Lavinder Greer, Mary Baldwin College

Connecting across Hemispheres in Media Studies

By Janna Jones, Northern Arizona University

Civic Seed: Developing a Video Game for Civic Engagement

By Mindy Nierenberg, Tufts University

Improving Student Success Using Technology-Based Analytics

By Elizabeth D. Phillips, Arizona State University

Student-Driven Technological Change in a Contingent Faculty Classroom

By Rebecca Dolinsky, Association of American Colleges and Universities

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