Research Catalog

Title

Diversity and unity : the role of higher education in building democracy : 2nd Tri-nation Campus Diversity Seminar (March 1998) / edited by M. Cross [and others].

Author

Tri-Nation Campus Diversity Seminar (2nd : 1998 : Durban, South Africa; Alice, South Africa; Cape Town, South Africa)

Publication

Cape Town : Maskew Miller Longman, 1999.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Cross, Michael, 1952-
• Centre for Higher Education Transformation.
• Ford Foundation.

Description

ix, 243 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Educational equalization > Congresses
• Education and state > Congresses
• Education, Higher > Social aspects > Congresses
• Universities and colleges > Sociological aspects > Congresses

Note

• "In March 1998, South Africa's Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET), with support from the Ford Foundation, sponsored an international seminar on diversity in higher education."--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Edgar F. Beckham -- De-centring conceptions of campus diversity / Alison Bernstein -- Culture, identity and the role of higher education in building democracy in South Africa / Nico Cloete, Michael Cross, Johan Miller and Sury Pillay -- Democracy, plurality and the Indian university / Shiv Visvanathan -- Gender, citizenship and diversity / Shireen Hassim and Amanda Gouws --From exclusion toward inclusion : the struggle for diversity in American higher education / Richard H. Brown and William E. Kirwan -- Campus-community linkages : a dialogue on diversity / Jaya Indiresan -- Strategic evaluation : an imperative for the future of campus diversity / Daryl G. Smith -- Community outreach and the college curriculum / Sharada Nayack -- Avoiding closure and challenging frameworks / Michael Cross and Nico Cloete.

ISBN

0636041840

OCLC

• 61277879
• ocm61277879
• SCSB-4292718

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries