Abstracts and Excerpts by Title

(unless ofherwise stated, abstracts and citations are from ERIC)

Using Scholarship To Improve Practice

• Teaching on Solid Ground: Using Scholarship To Improve Practice
• Iintroduction to Studying Diversity
  Introduction to Studying Diversity: Lessons from the Field
• Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Higher Education

Setting Agendas

• The Impact of Diversity on Students
• The Equity Education: Fostering the Advancement of Women
  in the Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering

Providing Guides

• Crucial Practices for Diversity: A Project Report
• Assessing Diversity on Campus: A Resource Guide

Research on Faculty Views

• Pedagogical Reality
• The Effects of Race and Type of Institution on the College Experiences of Black and White Undergraduate Students Attending 30 Predominantly Black and Predominantly White Colleges and Universities

Research on Student Views

• Comparing the Effects of Multiculturalism and Diversity on Minority and White Students' Satisfaction with College
• Influences on Students' Openness to Diversity and Challenge in the First Year of College
• Do White Students Perceive Racism toward Minority Students on Predominantly White Campuses
• What Have We Learned from the First Year of the National Study of Student Learning?

The Problem of Assessment

• Minorities in Higher Education (Table of Contents)
• Assessment for Excellence: The Philosophy and Practice of Assesment and Evaluation in Higher Education (excerpt)

Regarding Affirmative Action

• The Right Stuff: White Male Perspectives on Merit, Measurement, and Affirmative Action Admissions to Graduate Professional Schools
• Extension Leaders: Moving beyond Affirmative Action to Value Diversity

Visible Leadership

• The Uneasy Public Policy Triangle in Higher Education: Quality, Diversity, and Budgetary Efficiency (excerpt)