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Some of Our Favorite Summer Reading

Author’s disclaimer: While the daily schedule may be different, the author is fully aware that faculty do work in the summer – teaching classes, preparing for next year’s classes, continuing their own learning, conducting research, etc.  As they say, “you can take the faculty out of the classroom, but you can’t take the classroom…”

However, if in the course of your summer, you are interested in expanding your knowledge of diversity and inclusiveness, we thought we’d provide a few of our favorite resources for you from a variety of perspectives and welcome suggestions for future issues of Expressions.

 

Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work by Debra E. Meyerson. 2001 Harvard Business School Press

A book based on Meyerson’s research that explores how people of difference encourage growth and change within the system while retaining their job, their credibility and their future.

Reducing Stereotype Threat website

This website was created by two social psychologists who sought to provide resources for faculty, teachers, students and the general public about the concept of stereotype threat. The website offers summaries of research on the topic and discusses unresolved issues and controversies in the research literature on the phenomenon. Included are some research based suggestions for ameliorating the consequences of stereotype threat, particularly in academic settings. (Description taken from the website) http://www.reducingstereotypethreat.org/

NPR interview with Claude Steele: Secrets of the SAT

Claude Steele is known for his research exploring performance differences across race and gender. This interview provides some information about his research as well as his opinions about testing, etc. Link to Interview

Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools by: Glenn Singleton, Pacific Educational Group
And Curtis Linton, Video Journal of Education
A book providing discussion and strategies for addressing the achievement gap -- spans preschool through higher education.

Does Diversity Matter in the Education Process? An Exploration of Student Interactions by Wealth, Religion, Politics, Race, Ethnicity and Immigrant Status at the University of California by Steven Chatman. CSHE.3.5.2008 (March 2008).PDF document
(Research and Occasional Papers Series)

Abstract: This exploration into student interactions that improve understanding, student attachment, and demographic characteristics of students attending the University of California in the spring of 2006 finds the University to be a diverse and healthy environment. Interactions among students with demographic differences are frequent and are rarely associated with decreased sense of belonging. The research offers quantitative measures for legal concepts like critical mass and compelling state interest. Overall, rich or poor, religious or not religious, immigrant or Mayflower, Republican or Democrat, underrepresented minority or overrepresented majority, UC students feel that they belong at the University of California. In spite of strong scores across the board and only a few relative deficiencies, the University is encouraged to expand discussions about diversity, to launch a more thorough examination of campus climate generally, and to especially consider the experiences of low income and African American students.

Making Excellence Inclusive: Diversity, Inclusion and Institutional Renewal -- Briefing Papers, Association of American Colleges and Universities

Making Excellence Inclusive is designed to help colleges and universities fully integrate their diversity and educational quality efforts and embed them into the core of academic mission and institutional functioning. With support from the Ford Foundation, AAC&U commissioned three briefing papers that address the work needed to comprehensively link diversity and quality and place them at the center of campus planning and practice.
http://www.aacu.org/inclusive_excellence/papers.cfm

Note: Links will take readers to Non-Maricopa websites. Content was reviewed 4-30-08.