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Degrees of Risk

Navigating Insecurity and Inequality in Public Higher Education

by Blake R. Silver ...

An ethnographic analysis of how insecurity is at the heart of contemporary higher education.Institutions of higher education are often described as "ivory towers," places of privilege where students exist in a "campus bubble," insulated from the trials of the outside world. These metaphors reveal a widespread belief that college provides young people with stability and keeps insecurity at bay. But ... Read more

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An ethnographic analysis of how insecurity is at the heart of contemporary higher education.Institutions of higher education are often described as "ivory towers," places of privilege where students exist in a "campus bubble," insulated from the trials of the outside world. These metaphors reveal a widespread belief that college provides young people with stability and keeps insecurity at bay. But
... Read more

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Agenda for Social Justice 3

Solutions for 2024

by Ashley C. Rondini, Ashley N. Gwathney, Blake R. Silver, Brooke Cordes, Charity Anderson, Drew Bonner, Elroi Windsor, Gabriela Gonzalez, Hayley Carlisle, Jeanne Kimpel, Katie Kerstetter, Kristen Burke, Lance Hannon, Lindsay Redditt, McKenzie Berezin, Meredith Van Natta, Monique Harrison, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Raquel Rose, Sarah Jane Brubaker, Sophie Webb, Sydney Ingel, Teresa A. Sullivan, Tiffany Joseph, Tony Samara, Dana Johnson, Mary Bernstein ...

Series series SSSP Agendas for Social Justice
The Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions for 2024 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems and proposes public policy responses to those problems.Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), the book offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policymakers and the public ... Read more

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The Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions for 2024 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems and proposes public policy responses to those problems.Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), the book offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policymakers and the public
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The Cost of Inclusion

How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses

by Blake R. Silver ...

Young people are told that college is a place where they will “find themselves” by engaging with diversity and making friendships that will last a lifetime. This vision of an inclusive, diverse social experience is a fundamental part of the image colleges sell potential students. But what really happens when students arrive on campus and enter this new social world? The Cost of Inclusion delves ... Read more

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Young people are told that college is a place where they will “find themselves” by engaging with diversity and making friendships that will last a lifetime. This vision of an inclusive, diverse social experience is a fundamental part of the image colleges sell potential students. But what really happens when students arrive on campus and enter this new social world? The Cost of Inclusion delves
... Read more
Supporting College Students of Immigrant Origin

New Insights from Research, Policy, and Practice

Edited by Blake R. Silver, Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron ...

Over 5 million college students in the United States – nearly one-in-three students currently enrolled – are of immigrant origin, meaning they are either the children of immigrant parents or guardians and/or immigrants themselves. These students accounted for almost 60% of the growth in higher education enrolment in the 21st century. Nevertheless, there is very little research dedicated to this ... Read more

$36.89 USD

Over 5 million college students in the United States – nearly one-in-three students currently enrolled – are of immigrant origin, meaning they are either the children of immigrant parents or guardians and/or immigrants themselves. These students accounted for almost 60% of the growth in higher education enrolment in the 21st century. Nevertheless, there is very little research dedicated to this
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Cost of Inclusion, The

How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses

by Blake R. Silver ...

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7 hours 16 min

Young people are told that college is a place where they will “find themselves” by engaging with diversity and making friendships that will last a lifetime. This vision of an inclusive, diverse social experience is a fundamental part of the image colleges sell potential students. But what really happens when students arrive on campus and enter this new social world? The Cost of Inclusion delves ... Read more

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Young people are told that college is a place where they will “find themselves” by engaging with diversity and making friendships that will last a lifetime. This vision of an inclusive, diverse social experience is a fundamental part of the image colleges sell potential students. But what really happens when students arrive on campus and enter this new social world? The Cost of Inclusion delves
... Read more
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Degrees of Risk

Navigating Insecurity and Inequality in Public Higher Education

by Blake R. Silver ...

Narrated by Auto-narrated ...

Unabridged

8 hours 38 min

An ethnographic analysis of how insecurity is at the heart of contemporary higher education.Institutions of higher education are often described as “ivory towers,” places of privilege where students exist in a “campus bubble,” insulated from the trials of the outside world. These metaphors reveal a widespread belief that college provides young people with stability and keeps insecurity at bay. But ... Read more

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An ethnographic analysis of how insecurity is at the heart of contemporary higher education.Institutions of higher education are often described as “ivory towers,” places of privilege where students exist in a “campus bubble,” insulated from the trials of the outside world. These metaphors reveal a widespread belief that college provides young people with stability and keeps insecurity at bay. But
... Read more

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Inclusion on Purpose

An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work

by Ruchika T. Malhotra ...

How organizations can foster diversity, equity, and inclusion: taking action to address and prevent workplace bias while centering women of color.Few would disagree that inclusion is both the right thing to do and good for business. Then why are we so terrible at it? If we believe in the morality and the profitability of including people of diverse and underestimated backgrounds in the workplace, ... Read more

$17.99 USD

How organizations can foster diversity, equity, and inclusion: taking action to address and prevent workplace bias while centering women of color.Few would disagree that inclusion is both the right thing to do and good for business. Then why are we so terrible at it? If we believe in the morality and the profitability of including people of diverse and underestimated backgrounds in the workplace,
... Read more
The Seductions of Quantification

Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking

by Sally Engle Merry ...

Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories ... Read more

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We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories
... Read more
Women and Educational Leadership

by Margaret Grogan, Charol Shakeshaft ...

Series Book 10 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education
This groundbreaking book presents a new way of looking at leadership that is anchored in research on women leaders in education. The authors examine how successful women in education lead and offer suggestions and ideas for developing and honing these exemplary leadership practices.Women and Educational Leadership shows how the qualities that characterize women's approaches to leadership differ ... Read more

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This groundbreaking book presents a new way of looking at leadership that is anchored in research on women leaders in education. The authors examine how successful women in education lead and offer suggestions and ideas for developing and honing these exemplary leadership practices.Women and Educational Leadership shows how the qualities that characterize women's approaches to leadership differ
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The Black Agenda

Bold Solutions for a Broken System

Edited by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman ...

" The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from climate policy to criminal justice to healthcare. This book will challenge what you think is possible by igniting long overdue conversations around how to enact lasting and meaningful change rooted in racial justice." ... Read more

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" The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from climate policy to criminal justice to healthcare. This book will challenge what you think is possible by igniting long overdue conversations around how to enact lasting and meaningful change rooted in racial justice."
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Antiracist by Design

Reimagining Applied Behavioral Science

by Crystal C. Hall, Mindy Hernandez ...

How to confront the challenge of creating antiracist behavioral design—and how to successfully implement the solutions.Behavioral science has been celebrated as a field whose insights can design a better world, but its color-blind approach has perpetuated unjust systems. With over three decades of collective experience at the forefront of applied behavioral science, authors Hall and Hernandez ... Read more

$21.99 USD

How to confront the challenge of creating antiracist behavioral design—and how to successfully implement the solutions.Behavioral science has been celebrated as a field whose insights can design a better world, but its color-blind approach has perpetuated unjust systems. With over three decades of collective experience at the forefront of applied behavioral science, authors Hall and Hernandez
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Radical Care

Leading for Justice in Urban Schools

by Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen ...

Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care, as typically described and enacted, is not sufficient for leading schools, particularly those serving Black and Brown children. Instead, school leaders need to embrace radical care. Drawing from 20 years of researching and working in New York City public ... Read more

$28.79 USD

Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care, as typically described and enacted, is not sufficient for leading schools, particularly those serving Black and Brown children. Instead, school leaders need to embrace radical care. Drawing from 20 years of researching and working in New York City public
... Read more

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