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Managing Diversity Flashpoints in Higher Education (ACE/Praeger Series on Higher Education) by Joseph E. Garcia; Karen J. Hoelscher is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Covering a timely topic, which is more and more frequently in the news, this book offers vignettes that will sharpen the reader's ability to recognize and respond to difficult situations sparked by identity differences among faculty, staff, and students in college and university settings. The authors provide a systematic guide to addressing interpersonal conflicts that arise out of issues of identity difference, both for individuals and for campus work teams who provide direct service to students. Managing Diversity Flashpoints in Higher Education empowers readers to diagnose diversity flashpoint situations and positively address them without creating defensiveness and barriers to dialogue. The authors include an overview of the changing ethnic, racial, and gender composition of students in higher education in the United States and the major trends in campus responses to the changing student population. They offer an approach to creating higher education environments that welcome people of all cultural characteristics and promote civility on campus. The book is founded on the authors'research on diversity flashpoints in higher education for which they interviewed a national sample

Author

Joseph E. Garcia; Karen J. Hoelscher

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781607096528

Subjects

Education, Philosophy