Call for Diversity - Pressure, Expectation, Organizational Response in Postsecondary

Informationen zum Autor David J. Siegel Klappentext This book explores the organizational responses of professional schools and colleges to pressures, demands, requirements, expectations, and incentives related to diversity. The macro-organizational perspective supplies much-needed balance and complexity to traditional depictions of post-secondary institutions as largely self-motivated in their diversity efforts. Zusammenfassung This book explores the constellation of external and internall factors that contribute to organizational responses to diversity in post-secondary education. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements 1. The Call for Diversity 2. Diversity as an Issue in American Life 3. Toward an Understanding of Organizational Responsiveness 4. Theoretical Framework and Research Setting 5. School of Public Health: Diversity as Weave and Fabric 6. Business School: Supplying Market Demand for Diversity 7. School of Social Work: Focus on Multiculturalism 8. College of Engineering: Developing the Pipeline 9. Comparative Analysis 10. Conclusion Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: David Siegel, David J. Siegel, Siegel David J.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2003
• EAN: 9780415945035
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94503-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education; Routledgefalmer Dissertation S; RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Administration / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher