George Yancey
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199735433
- eISBN:
- 9780199866267
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199735433.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter uses an Internet survey of Protestant schools to find out why students of color are more or less likely to attend certain Protestant educational institutions. Analysis of these data ...
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This chapter uses an Internet survey of Protestant schools to find out why students of color are more or less likely to attend certain Protestant educational institutions. Analysis of these data indicates that there is very little Protestant colleges and universities can do to attract African Americans and Native Americans. However, a variety of diversity initiatives are correlated with the percentage of Hispanic and Asian Americans on campus. Furthermore, educational courses that deal with racial issues and student-led multicultural organizations are more highly correlated to the retention of a diverse student body than multicultural, antiracism, community, or non-European cultural programs.Less
This chapter uses an Internet survey of Protestant schools to find out why students of color are more or less likely to attend certain Protestant educational institutions. Analysis of these data indicates that there is very little Protestant colleges and universities can do to attract African Americans and Native Americans. However, a variety of diversity initiatives are correlated with the percentage of Hispanic and Asian Americans on campus. Furthermore, educational courses that deal with racial issues and student-led multicultural organizations are more highly correlated to the retention of a diverse student body than multicultural, antiracism, community, or non-European cultural programs.
George Yancey
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199735433
- eISBN:
- 9780199866267
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199735433.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter presents practical advice for faculty and administrators of Protestant colleges and universities who want to generate more racial diversity. It suggests establishing a curriculum that ...
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This chapter presents practical advice for faculty and administrators of Protestant colleges and universities who want to generate more racial diversity. It suggests establishing a curriculum that deals with issues of racial diversity and seeking opportunities to create productive dialogue. Protestant educational institutions must also prepare to deal with professors not committed to addressing issues of diversity, since such professors feed students’ resistance toward such a dialogue. Administrators should also encourage the development of multicultural student organizations that promote interracial dialogue. Although the importance of personal relationships to white students may not easily generalize to non-Protestant campuses, the importance of diversity courses and professors of color probably does.Less
This chapter presents practical advice for faculty and administrators of Protestant colleges and universities who want to generate more racial diversity. It suggests establishing a curriculum that deals with issues of racial diversity and seeking opportunities to create productive dialogue. Protestant educational institutions must also prepare to deal with professors not committed to addressing issues of diversity, since such professors feed students’ resistance toward such a dialogue. Administrators should also encourage the development of multicultural student organizations that promote interracial dialogue. Although the importance of personal relationships to white students may not easily generalize to non-Protestant campuses, the importance of diversity courses and professors of color probably does.
Gwyneth Mellinger
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037382
- eISBN:
- 9780252094644
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037382.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This book explores the complex history of the decades-long ASNE (American Society of News Editors) diversity initiative, which culminated in the failed Goal 2000 effort to match newsroom demographics ...
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This book explores the complex history of the decades-long ASNE (American Society of News Editors) diversity initiative, which culminated in the failed Goal 2000 effort to match newsroom demographics with those of the U.S. population. Drawing upon exhaustive reviews of ASNE archival materials, the book examines the democratic paradox through the lens of the ASNE, an elite organization that arguably did more than any other during the twentieth century to institutionalize professional standards in journalism and expand the concepts of government accountability and the free press. The ASNE would emerge in the 1970s as the leader in the newsroom integration movement, but its effort would be frustrated by structures of exclusion that the organization had embedded into its own professional standards. Explaining why a project so promising failed so profoundly, the book expands our understanding of the intransigence of institutional racism, gender discrimination, and homophobia within democracy.Less
This book explores the complex history of the decades-long ASNE (American Society of News Editors) diversity initiative, which culminated in the failed Goal 2000 effort to match newsroom demographics with those of the U.S. population. Drawing upon exhaustive reviews of ASNE archival materials, the book examines the democratic paradox through the lens of the ASNE, an elite organization that arguably did more than any other during the twentieth century to institutionalize professional standards in journalism and expand the concepts of government accountability and the free press. The ASNE would emerge in the 1970s as the leader in the newsroom integration movement, but its effort would be frustrated by structures of exclusion that the organization had embedded into its own professional standards. Explaining why a project so promising failed so profoundly, the book expands our understanding of the intransigence of institutional racism, gender discrimination, and homophobia within democracy.
