Inclusive Practices in Higher Ed
A resource list for faculty development and reflection around improving campus practices on inclusion. Consider using one of the following as a faculty group focus piece, where the book, article or podcast is analyzed and reflected upon. You may not agree with all of the opinions expressed, but it should get one thinking on how social context deeply affects the learning process.
Book list (general)
A Different Mirror: A history of multicultural America – Ronald Takaki.
A Hope in the unseen – Ken Sisson.
Becoming a critically reflective teacher – Stephen Brookfield
Blindspot: Hidden biases of good people – Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji.
Paying the Price: College costs, financial aid, and the betrayal of the American Dream
– Sarah Goldrick-Rab
Some of my best friends are black: The strange story of integration in America – Tanner Colby.
The Color of Law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America
– Richard Rothstein
The Righteous Mind: How good people are divided by politics and religion – Jonathan Haidt.
A Different Mirror: A history of multicultural America – Ronald Takaki.
The short tragic life of Robert Peace – Jeff Hobbs.
There goes my everything: White Southerners in the Civil Rights era - Jason Sokol.
When affirmative action was white - Ira Katznelson.
Whistling Vivaldi: How stereotypes affect us and what we can do – Claude Steele.
Book list (specific to my locations). These books gave me a better sense of the social structure of where I lived.
MIAMI, FLORIDA
Havana Nocturne: How the mob owned Cuba and lost it to the revolution – T.J. English.
The book mostly describes the relationship between the mob and Batista, but in so doing explains the immigration patterns before and during the Cuban revolution.
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida and the politics of paradise – Michael Grunwald.
The book described a 100-year process to ‘tame’ the Everglades. In so doing, the author describes the immigrations patterns and politics of the different ethnic groups. Black Miami in the twentieth century – Marvin Dunn. This book chronicles the history of the African diaspora in south Florida since the slave trade. This history explains the settlement patterns seen in Miami today.
KINGSTON, RHODE ISLAND
Rhode Island: A history – William McCloughlin.
Description of the history of Rhode Island from its founding by Roger Williams to the political corruption of the mid eighties.
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozie.
A historical fiction novel describing the social assimilation of an international student from Nigeria. I have a fair amount of students of color from the African diaspora. Ms. Ngozie’s characterization of the protagonist’s experience has helped me understand my students’ American experience.
Dark Work: the business of slavery in Rhode Island – Christy Clark-Pujara.
The author describes the outsized role that the state of Rhode Island played in the slave trade.
Articles
Opening Doors – An article on how two institutions diversified their faculty without targeted hiring.
Documentary
Ivory Tower [Andrew Rossi] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjfwnBuj3O0 –
Discusses the current and future of higher ed. Interesting points worth discussing.
13 th [Ava DuVernay] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V66F3WU2CKk –
Extraordinary documentary on the 13 th amendment and crime in America.
Podcast
A not so simple majority This American Life - https://www.thisamericanlife.org/534/a-not-so-simple-majority – This podcast discusses a fractious relationship between a inhabitants of the East Ramapo school district and their school board.
Community: Planet Money - http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/03/18/393904767/episode-611-community. – Focusing on the transition of a community college student, this podcast may make you think more deeply on the need for intrusive, deep advising.
Seeing White - http://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/ – The host unpacks what it means to be white, and in so doing discusses in depth the relationship between racism and power.
Summer melt: Hidden Brain - http://www.npr.org/2017/07/17/537740926/why-arent-students-showing- up-for- college – Podcast, using examples, explains how the college admission test can exclude low-income students.
Three miles: This American Life - https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-
archives/episode/550/three-miles – Podcast covers different things in education including school disparity in K12, and social belonging in elite schools.