Engaging the "Race Question": Accountability and Equity in U.S. Higher Education. Multicultural Education Series

Autor/inn/en	Dowd, Alicia C.; Bensimon, Estela Mara
Titel	Engaging the "Race Question": Accountability and Equity in U.S. Higher Education. Multicultural Education Series
Quelle	(2015), (240 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-8077-5611-9
Schlagwörter	Race; Accountability; Equal Education; Higher Education; Disproportionate Representation; Justice; School Policy; Educational Policy; Educational Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rasse; Abstammung; Verantwortung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Gerechtigkeit; Schulpolitik; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform
Abstract	This book is for anyone who is challenged or troubled by the substantial disparities in college participation, persistence, and completion among racial and ethnic groups in the United States. As codirectors of the Center for Urban Education (CUE) at the University of Southern California, coauthors Alicia Dowd and Estela Bensimon draw on their experience conducting CUE's Equity Scorecard, a comprehensive action research process that has been implemented at over 40 colleges and universities in the United States. They demonstrate what educators need to know and do to take an active role in racial equity work on their own campuses. Through case studies of college faculty, administrators, and student affairs professionals engaged in inquiry using the Equity Scorecard, the book clarifies the "muddled conversation" that colleges and universities are having about equity. Synthesizing equity standards based on three theories of justice--justice as fairness, justice as care, and justice as transformation--the authors provide strategies for enacting equity in practice on college campuses. "Engaging the 'Race Question'" illustrates how practitioner inquiry can be used to address the "race question" with wisdom and calls on college leaders and educators to change the policies and practices that perpetuate institutional and structural racism--and provides a blueprint for doing so. This book: (1) Provides concrete examples of policy and practice for improving equity in postsecondary education; (2) Examines the role of individuals and groups in the change process; (3) Includes examples of action research tools from the Equity Scorecard; and (4) Offers strategies for professional development and organizational change. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01