November 5, 2012
The following books recently acquired by the library discuss a variety of multicultural issues important to higher education today.
Creating Campus Cultures: Fostering Success Among Racially Diverse Student Populations edited by Samuel D. Museus and Uma M. Jayakumar. ?New York: Routledge, 2012. Call number:? LC 3727 .C74 2012 ? This edited collection provides insights into how campus cultures can and do shape the experiences and outcomes of their increasingly diverse college student populations.
Engaging Diversity in Undergraduate Classrooms: A Pedegogy for Developing Intercultural Competence by Amy Lee.?? Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Periodicals, Inc. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 2012.? Call number: LC 1099 .L43x 2012? ? ?This monograph integrates multiple steams of literature that support the claim that the manner in which diversity is engaged in classrooms has a significant impact on the development of students? intercultural competence. The goal of the monograph is to synthesize literature on why intercultural skills matter, what they look like in practice, and how they can be developed by instructors regardless of the courses they teach??P. vii.
Research Studies in Higher Education: Educating Multicultural College Students by Terence Hicks and Abul Pitre? Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2012.? Call number: ?LC 2781 .R47x 2012? ? This book provides the reader with a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research studies in nine chapters that discuss topics such as African American, first-generation, undecided, and non-traditional college students.
Americans By Heart: Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education by William Perez.? New York: Teachers College Press, 2012.? Call number: LC 2670.6 .P47 2012 ??? Examines the challenges that undocumented Latino students have in the educational system because of their immigration status.
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