Asians In The Ivory Tower

Author : Robert T. Teranishi
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807751305
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asians in the Ivory Tower written by Robert T. Teranishi and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly respected scholar Robert Teranishi draws on his vast research to present this timely and compelling examination of the experience of Asian Americans in higher education. Asians in the Ivory Tower explores why and how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are important to our nation’s higher education priorities and places the study of AAPI college participation within a broad set of conditions through which all students must navigate as they pursue higher education. Teranishi captures the intersections of individual agency, social conditions, and organizational structures as synergetic forces that result in a range of postsecondary outcomes for subpopulations within the larger body of AAPIs. Transcending narrow generalizations about this understudied population, this seminal book: Debunks false stereotypes about AAPI students and their educational trajectories. Offers a unique empirical perspective on racial stratification in higher education through case studies that mix quantitative data with narratives of lived stories. Examines the educational experiences and routes to college for AAPIs, and examines broader issues around racial inequality and debates about affirmative action. Captures the nuances and complexity of race, offering theoretical perspectives that can be applied to other populations.

Author : Brett C. Stockdill
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082486039X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming the Ivory Tower written by Brett C. Stockdill and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People outside and within colleges and universities often view these institutions as fair and reasonable, far removed from the inequalities that afflict society in general. Despite greater numbers of women, working class people, and people of color—as well as increased visibility for LGBTQ students and staff—over the past fifty years, universities remain “ivory towers” that perpetuate institutionalized forms of sexism, classism, racism, and homophobia. Transforming the Ivory Tower builds on the rich legacy of historical struggles to open universities to dissenting voices and oppressed groups. Each chapter is guided by a commitment to praxis—the idea that theoretical understandings of inequality must be applied to concrete strategies for change. The common misconception that racism, sexism, and homophobia no longer plague university life heightens the difficulty to dismantle the interlocking forms of oppression that undergird the ivory tower. Contributors demonstrate that women, LGBTQ people, and people of color continue to face systemic forms of bias and discrimination on campuses throughout the U.S. Curriculum and pedagogy, evaluation of scholarship, and the processes of tenure and promotion are all laden with inequities both blatant and covert. The contributors to this volume defy the pressure to assimilate by critically examining personal and collective struggles. Speaking from different social spaces and backgrounds, they analyze antiracist, feminist, and queer approaches to teaching and mentoring, research and writing, academic culture and practices, growth and development of disciplines, campus activism, university-community partnerships, and confronting privilege. Transforming the Ivory Tower will be required reading for all students, faculty, and administrators seeking to understand bias and discrimination in higher education and to engage in social justice work on and off college campuses. It offers a proactive approach encompassing institutional and cultural changes that foster respect, inclusion, and transformation. Contributors: Michael Armato , Rick Bonus, Jose Guillermo Zapata Calderon, Mary Yu Danico, Christina Gómez , David Naguib Pellow, Brett C. Stockdill, Linda Trinh Võ.

Author : Martin S. Kramer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ivory Towers on Sand written by Martin S. Kramer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unquestionably, this is one of the most important books about understanding the Middle East written during the last half-century.Jerusalem Post

Author : Deborah Gray White
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458723089
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telling Histories written by Deborah Gray White and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of black women's history gained recognition as a legitimate field of study late in the twentieth century. Collecting stories that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, Telling Histories compiles seventeen personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers, illuminating how they entered and navigated higher education, a world concerned with - and dominated by - whites and men. In distinct voices and from different vantage points, the personal histories revealed here also tell the story of the struggle to establish the fields of African American and African American women's history.

Author : Joseph Lepgold
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231505523
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Ivory Tower written by Joseph Lepgold and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gap between academics and practitioners in international relations has widened in recent years, according to the authors of this book. Many international relations scholars no longer try to reach beyond the ivory tower and many policymakers disdain international relations scholarship as arcane and irrelevant. Joseph Lepgold and Miroslav Nincic demonstrate how good international relations theory can inform policy choices. Globalization, ethnic conflict, and ecological threats have created a new set of issues that challenge policymakers, and cutting-edge scholarship can contribute a great deal to the diagnosis and handling of potentially explosive situations.

Author : Lori M. Ideta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian Women Leaders of Higher Education written by Lori M. Ideta and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlie Eaton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022672056X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bankers in the Ivory Tower written by Charlie Eaton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the intimate relationship between big finance and higher education inequality in America. Elite colleges have long played a crucial role in maintaining social and class status in America while public universities have offered a major stepping-stone to new economic opportunities. However, as Charlie Eaton reveals in Bankers in the Ivory Tower, finance has played a central role in the widening inequality in recent decades, both in American higher education and in American society at large. With federal and state funding falling short, the US higher education system has become increasingly dependent on financial markets and the financiers that mediate them. Beginning in the 1980s, the government, colleges, students, and their families took on multiple new roles as financial investors, borrowers, and brokers. The turn to finance, however, has yielded wildly unequal results. At the top, ties to Wall Street help the most elite private schools achieve the greatest endowment growth through hedge fund investments and the support of wealthy donors. At the bottom, takeovers by private equity transform for-profit colleges into predatory organizations that leave disadvantaged students with massive loan debt and few educational benefits. And in the middle, public universities are squeezed between incentives to increase tuition and pressures to maintain access and affordability. Eaton chronicles these transformations, making clear for the first time just how tight the links are between powerful financiers and America’s unequal system of higher education.

Author : Derek Curtis BOK
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674028465
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Ivory Tower written by Derek Curtis BOK and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Bok examines the complex ethical and social issues facing modern universities today, and suggests approaches that will allow the academic institution both to serve society and to continue its primary mission of teaching and research.

Author : Nolan L. Cabrera
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807769169
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whiteness in the Ivory Tower written by Nolan L. Cabrera and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book centers the harm that Whiteness causes to communities of Color broadly in order to transform higher education practices, policies, and research"--

Author : Kamakshi P. Murti
Publisher : Vanguard Press
ISBN 13 : 9781800161719
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murders in the Ivory Tower written by Kamakshi P. Murti and published by Vanguard Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two crime-fighting South-Asian cousins, Leela and Meena Rao are back on the scene of multiple killings in this compelling murder mystery by Kamakshi Murti, author of Murders Most Matronly. The cousins' ambition is to emulate Christie's Jane Marple - in this latest story, they become embroiled in a series of gruesome homicides. After a bloody discovery at the prestigious Anderson College of star quarterback Sean O'Flaherty, staff and students are drawn into the lives of drug-consumed, Ivy League collegians. When a second body is found, that of a popular Zimbabwean TA in the African Studies department, the cousins must establish how and why these two students have become inextricably linked. As more killings come to light, they seem to point towards radicalism, but are they as straightforward as they seem or is someone trying to distract from the real motive? Faced with a surfeit of suspects, will Leela and Meena be able to obtain justice for the heinous crimes and reveal the truth?