Explores the interdisciplinary dimensions of black studies.

Analyzes and defines the parameters of effective college outreach programs.

Portrays the diverse experiences and identities of mixed race college students.

Goes to the heart of the challenges facing the nation's research universities.

Looks at the progress, popularity, and problems related to states linking funding of public colleges and universities to performance.

An interdisciplinary reader exploring issues related to diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice.

Focuses on pre-college enrichment programs as a solution to the problem of minority and low-income student access to postsecondary education.

A critical examination of current sociopolitical issues surrounding equity and diversity and their impact on higher education.

Shows the tenacious spirit and hard work of women administrators in their struggles to enhance opportunities for women on college campuses.

Offers the definitive study of United States-Japan educational exchange relationship.

Challenges the ways "lesbian academics" have been socially constructed.

Focuses on the ongoing negotiations of professional autonomy and managerial discretion and provides insight into the broad restructuring of faculty, with conclusions that extend beyond unionized faculty to all of academe.

This examination of feminist collaboration reconceptualizes ideas about creativity, cooperation, and competition in higher education.

Minority scholars offer a critical and often radical rethinking of fundamental questions concerning identity, politics, and difference/s as these inform educational theory and practice.

Articulates salient problems of tenure-track faculty, especially women and faculty of color. Offers a new paradigm to delineate ways in which the academic community can help socialize younger faculty, and honor differences more readily.

Provides an overview of ethnicity and intergroup relations, profiles the development of multiculturalism and ethnic studies, and analyzes the issues related to diversity in higher education as they relate to ethnic studies and multicultural efforts.

This book addresses literary critics in mainstream institutions who, though they vastly outnumber their colleagues in more prestigious institutions, have little voice in the profession. It examines the ...

This book examines the harassment of the Johns Hopkins University sinologist Owen Lattimore during the height of the Cold War on campus. It moves from detailing the specifics of Lattimore's case to a ...

This study examines the consequences of cultural development on the emergence of contemporary sport. The current preoccupation with statistics and reductionist theories has objectified athletic performance ...

Clark Kerr, former President of the University of California and a leader in higher education policymaking, offers his views of the turbulent decades when colleges and universities scrambled to provide ...

In this critical new work, Slaughter investigates how university involvement in high technology influences higher education policy. By conducting a case study of the Business-Higher Education Forum, a ...