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Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universitiesreviewed by Stanley Katz - August 10, 2009 Title: Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities Author(s): Camille Z. Charles, Mary J. Fischer, Margarita A. Mooney, and Douglas S. Massey Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton ISBN: 0691139644, Pages: 320, Year: 2009 Search for book at Amazon.com Taming the River, by Camille Z. Charles, Mary J. Fischer, Margarita A. Mooney, and Douglas S. Massey, is fascinating and important for anyone who cares about managing diversity in higher education. It is an entirely data driven book, and this is both its strength and weakness. It is a strength because the authors have good evidence on which to base their highly sophisticated social science analysis. It is a weakness since the data relate to a fairly small sample of highly selective colleges and universities, thus limiting the degree to which we can generalize across higher education on the basis of its findings. The dataset began with Bill Bowen and Derek Boks College and Beyond Survey of 1979 and 1989 cohorts of freshmen, long after the students in the sample had graduated, at a small number of selective institutions. But these data have now been enhanced by a new survey,... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Stanley Katz
Princeton University E-mail Author STANLEY KATZ is a lecturer with rank of Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. He is a scholar of legal and constitutional history who frequently comments on higher education policy, and is a brainstorm blogger on higher ed policy for the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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