Diversity's Promise for Higher Education: Making It Work
reviewed by Neal Hutchens
 Title: Diversity's Promise for Higher Education: Making It Work Author(s): Daryl G. Smith Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore ISBN: 080189316X, Pages: 352, Year: 2009 Search for book at Amazon.com
In Diversity’s Promise for Higher Education: Making it Work, Daryl G. Smith provides scholars and administrators with a valuable resource in offering a multi-faceted approach for colleges and universities to follow in seeking to make diversity efforts constitute a core part of institutional functioning. Research demonstrates that diversity initiatives at colleges and universities must contend with complex and overlapping factors and challenges (see, e.g., Hurtado, Milem, Clayton-Pedersen, & Allen, 1999), and Smith offers a framework with multiple dimensions targeted at enhancing overall institutional capacity to promote diversity. The emphasis on institutional capacity provides the key conceptual approach for the work. The author, while recognizing the comparison is not a completely seamless match, discusses how the emergence of technology as an everyday part of campus life serves as a useful analogy for the goal of making diversity efforts an integral part of institutional functioning and decision making. The comparison is meant... (preview truncated at 150 words.) Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record, 2010, p. -
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