Emancipatory Change in US Higher Education

This edited volume explores and deconstructs the possibilities of higher education beyond its initial purpose. The book contextualizes and argues for a more robust interrogation of persistent patterns of campus inequality driven by rapid demographic change, reduced public spending in higher education, and an increasingly polarized political landscape. It offers contemporary views and critiques ideas and practices such as micro-aggressions, implicit and explicit bias, and their consequences in reifying racial and gender-based inequalities on members of nondominant groups. The book also highlights coping mechanisms and resistance strategies that have enabled members of nondominant groups to contest primarily racial- and gender- based inequity. In doing so, it identifies new ways higher education can do what it professes to do better, in all ways, from providing real benefit to students and communities, while also setting a bar for society to more effectively realize its stated purpose and creed.

Chapter 1. Introduction. - Chapter 2. The American University and the Struggle for Democracy. - Chapter 3. Space, place, and power in the Neoliberal Academy: Reflections on Asian American Women and Leadership in The Chair. - Chapter 4. Equity and Efficacy in Teaching Effectiveness Assessment (TEA)8. - Chapter 5. What students, whose success? Reimagining the transformation of higher education through critically engaged student success initiatives. - Chapter 6. Transformative mentoring relationships: Engaging student voices to create emancipatory change in curriculum. - Chapter 7. A Center for Sight and Sound: Connecting Media Representations to Critical Production Training. - Chapter 8. The Quiet Revolution: Humanizing Institutions of Higher Education in the Wake of Existential Trauma. - Chapter 9. The Latina
Madre
and her Journey to Baccalaureate Degree Attainment. - Chapter 10. Why Race Matters in Financial Literacy Education. - Chapter 11. Philanthropic Funding and the Future ofHBCUs. - Chapter 12. Forging community: Reflections on a colloquium for critical scholars of college sport.