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Diversifying STEM
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender
Edited by Ebony O. McGee and William H. Robinson
Rutgers University Press
Research frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Diversifying STEM fills this void, bringing together a wide array of perspectives and the voices of a number of multidisciplinary scholars.
Diversifying STEM
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender
Edited by Ebony O. McGee and William H. Robinson
Rutgers University Press
Research frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Diversifying STEM fills this void, bringing together a wide array of perspectives and the voices of a number of multidisciplinary scholars.
Fight the Tower
Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy
Edited by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis
Rutgers University Press
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.
Fight the Tower
Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy
Edited by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis
Rutgers University Press
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.
Living When Everything Changed
My Life in Academia
Rutgers University Press
In this compelling memoir, Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault describes how a Catholic girl from small-town Nebraska discovered her callings as a feminist, as an academic, and as a university administrator. With remarkable candor and compassion, she reflects on how second-wave feminism has transformed academia and how much reform is still needed.
Back in School
How Student Parents Are Transforming College and Family
Rutgers University Press
Fifty years ago, students who were parents were a rarity in college classrooms, but recently, over a quarter of all undergraduate students were parents. A. Fiona Pearson explores how these student parents navigate cultural norms and institutional resources, forging pathways as they journey to become better parents and successful students.
Unequal Higher Education
Wealth, Status, and Student Opportunity
Rutgers University Press
Unequal Higher Education identifies and explains the sources of stratification that differentiate colleges and universities in the U.S. Taylor and Cantwell map the contours of this system, identifying which higher education institutions occupy which status positions at any given point in time, and explain the factors that support and extend this system of unequal higher education.
Intersectionality and Higher Education
Identity and Inequality on College Campuses
Rutgers University Press
Though colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? This book examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences.
Intersectionality and Higher Education
Identity and Inequality on College Campuses
Rutgers University Press
Though colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? This book examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences.
The Instruction Myth
Why Higher Education is Hard to Change, and How to Change It
By John Tagg
Rutgers University Press
The Instruction Myth argues that higher education can only be saved if universities are willing and able to abandon one of their key assumptions: that education revolves around instruction. In its place, he presents a powerful new model of a university centered upon student learning, offering concrete plans for its implementation.
Inside Academia
Professors, Politics, and Policies
Rutgers University Press
In Inside Academia,esteemed professor and philosopherSteven M. Cahn diagnoses issues plaguing America’s universities and offers his prescriptions for improvement. He uses real cases to illustrate how college faculty and administrators often do not serve the best interests of schools or students.
Toxic Ivory Towers
The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented Minority Faculty
Rutgers University Press
Toxic Ivory Towers documents the realities of social and economic inequalities in the work-life experiences of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in U.S. higher education. It takes a look at the institutional factors impacting the professional ability and health of URM faculty to be successful at their jobs, and to flourish in academia.
Making Sense of the College Curriculum
Faculty Stories of Change, Conflict, and Accommodation
Rutgers University Press
Over 185 faculty members from eleven colleges and universities share personal, humorous, powerful, and poignant stories about their experiences in higher education. Collectively, these accounts help to answer the question of why developing a structured and coherent undergraduate education is such a vexing challenge for colleges and universities.
The Douglass Century
Transformation of the Women’s College at Rutgers University
Rutgers University Press
The Douglass Century tells a powerful tale of the creativity and determination of successive generations of women who have claimed intellectual space, devised educational programs, and sustained an academic project, Douglass Residential College that has reshaped the worlds available to women in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Using Servant Leadership
How to Reframe the Core Functions of Higher Education
Rutgers University Press
The theory of servant leadership posits that the most effective leaders nurture the personal growth and well-being of their followers. Using Servant Leadership provides an instructive guide for how college and university faculty members can engage with administrators, students, and community members to put these principles into practice.