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A Critical Exploration of Diversity Discourses in Higher Education: A Focus on Diversity in Student Affairs and Admissions

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Part of the book series: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research ((HATR,volume 33))

Abstract

Diversity is a concept that is understood and enacted in various ways throughout higher education. Despite past and current efforts to increase diversity using logics rooted in equity, economic imperatives, and cultural responsiveness, data on diverse student admissions, persistence and graduation suggests that the intention to increase diversity to a level reflective of diverse student demographic rates has not yet been accomplished (Pippert D, Essenburg L, Matchet E, J Mark High Edu 23(2):258–282, 2013; Smith DG, Diversity’s promise for higher education: making it work. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2015; Smith M, Ota A, J Coll Admiss 218:16–21, 2013). This chapter focuses on the call to increase diversity in U.S. higher education, and critically analyzes how diversity is understood, operationalized and enacted in institutional efforts to advance diversity among students.

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Hakkola, L., Ropers-Huilman, R. (2018). A Critical Exploration of Diversity Discourses in Higher Education: A Focus on Diversity in Student Affairs and Admissions. In: Paulsen, M. (eds) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72490-4_9

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