Privilege and Diversity in the Academy

by Maher; Frances A.

• ISBN13: 9780415946650
• ISBN10: 0415946654
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-11-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Over the past several decades, higher education has been transformed by the entry of faculty of color and women into the university system. Through detailed institutional ethnographies of three very different universities, Privilege and Diversity in the Academyexplores how this diversification has dismantled and reconfigured relationships of privilege and diversity in higher education. Authors Maher and Tetreault use examples from a top-ranked private university, a comprehensive urban university, and a major public university to illustrate how privilege is enacted, resisted, and transformed as changes occur in the student bodies and faculties of these schools. In their analyses, they identify the institutional structures that facilitate the success of a diverse faculty and make valuable observations about patterns of institutional change and resistance.

Author Biography

Frances A. Maher is Professor of Education at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault is Provost Emerita of Portland State University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
1 Frameworks of Analysis: Histories and Theories of Privilege	1	(30)
2 Portraits of Three Institutions	31	(30)
3 Diversifying the Faculty	61	(24)
4 Linking Diversity to Excellence and Deconstructing Privilege	85	(36)
5 Structural Privilege, Interdisciplinarity, and Calls for Change	121	(34)
6 The New Scholarship of Diversity and Its Relation to Institutional Structures	155	(28)
7 Privilege and Diversity: Relating Local and National Discourses	183	(14)
Bibliography	197	(10)
Notes	207	(22)
Index	229