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  • Asian American Is Not a Color

    Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family

    by OiYan A. Poon ...
    A mother and race scholar seeks to answer her daughter’s many questions about race and racism with an earnest exploration into race relations and affirmative action from the perspectives of Asian AmericansBefore being struck down by the US Supreme Court in June 2023, affirmative action remained one of the few remaining policy tools to address racial inequalities, revealing peculiar contours of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Asian American Is Not a Color

    Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family

    by OiYan A. Poon ...
    Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 12 min

    A mother and race scholar seeks to answer her daughter’s many questions about race and racism with an earnest exploration into race relations and affirmative action from the perspectives of Asian AmericansBefore being struck down by the US Supreme Court in June 2023, affirmative action remained one of the few remaining policy tools to address racial inequalities, revealing peculiar contours of ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Rethinking College Admissions

    Research-Based Practice and Policy

    Edited by OiYan A. Poon, Michael N. Bastedo ...
    Rethinking College Admissions probes the many facets of higher education admissions and translates research-backed insights into actionable strategies for innovative, equitable admissions practices.Edited by scholars OiYan A. Poon and Michael N. Bastedo, this collection gives readers an evidence-based understanding of postsecondary admissions practices and structures, exploring many factors that ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Difficult Subjects

    Insights and Strategies for Teaching About Race, Sexuality, and Gender

    Edited by Badia Ahad-Legardy, OiYan A. Poon ...
    Difficult Subjects: Insights and Strategies for Teaching about Race, Sexuality and Gender is a collection of essays from scholars across disciplines, institutions, and ranks that offers diverse and multi-faceted approaches to teaching about subjects that prove both challenging and often uncomfortable for both the professor and the student. It encourages college educators to engage in forms of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education

    by James Cote, Anton L. Allahar ...
    What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the ... Read more

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  • Is Everyone Really Equal?

    An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education

    by Robin DiAngelo, Özlem Sensoy ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    This award-winning guide to social justice education is appropriate for students from high school through graduate school.Based on the authors’ extensive experience in a range of settings in the United States and Canada, the book addresses the most common stumbling blocks to understanding social justice. This comprehensive resource includes new features such as a chapter on intersectionality and ... Read more

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  • Completing College

    Rethinking Institutional Action

    by Vincent Tinto ...
    Even as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not complete their degree within six years. It is clear that much remains to be done toward improving student success. For more than twenty years, Vincent Tinto’s pathbreaking book Leaving College has been recognized ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Achieving Student Success

    Effective Student Services in Canadian Higher Education

    by Donna Hardy Cox, C. Strange ...
    This incisive and luminescent story, scrupulously grounded in sixteenth-century sources, illuminates the power that "naming" has to create a world - in this case a world still haunted by being the accidental Indies. It is a book about how we perceive and represent the world around us, about the creative and destructive power of language. Through its elaboration of the rich and lively ironies of ... Read more

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  • Institutions and Organizations

    Ideas, Interests, and Identities

    by W. Richard Scott ...
    Creating a clear, analytical framework, this comprehensive exploration of the relationship between institutional theory and the study of organizations continues to reflect the richness and diversity of institutional thought—viewed both historically and as a contemporary, ongoing field of study. Drawing on the insights of cultural and organizational sociologists, institutional economists, social ... Read more

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  • Extending Educational Reform

    From One School to Many

    by Amanda Datnow, Lea Hubbard, Hugh Mehan ...
    In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform attempts to extend from one school to many?Through qualitative data from several studies, this book explores ... Read more

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  • Discovering Sociology

    by Mark McCormack, Eric Anderson, Kimberly Jamie, Matthew David ...
    This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the book's 12 chapters, students discover what sociology is, alongside its historical development and emergent new concerns. They will be led through ... Read more

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  • An Inclusive Academy

    Achieving Diversity and Excellence

    by Abigail J. Stewart, Virginia Valian ...
    How colleges and universities can live up to their ideals of diversity, and why inclusivity and excellence go hand in hand.Most colleges and universities embrace the ideals of diversity and inclusion, but many fall short, especially in the hiring, retention, and advancement of faculty who would more fully represent our diverse world—in particular women and people of color. In this book, Abigail ... Read more

    $18.99 USD