Diversity in American Higher Education: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach

Unlike other volumes on diversity, Diversity in American Higher Education conceptualizes diversity broadly to include not only race/ethnicity and gender, but also socioeconomic status and sexual and political orientation. As such, it captures under one unbrella a wide range of critical issues that comprise the current discourse on diversity in higher education; it also includes issues related to the pipeline and access to higher education, financial aid, and the legal underpinnings of affirmative action. In its totality, the proposed volume covers the many salient issues that impact diversity, as broadly defined, on the college campus and the resulting college experience of students, staff, and faculty. An additional important and unique feature of this volume is that it brings together the leading experts on diversity in higher education scholarship. Through their publications and research, these contributors have collectively defined the agenda for diversity as we know it today. Given the breadth of the material covered and the current public interest in this topic, the book will be valuable reading for professionals in higher education, including admissions officers and deans, student affairs officers. It is also an appropriaet text for undergraduate, masters, and doctoral-level students in higher education and policy courses, in general, those interested in matters of diversity in higher education.