Multicultural students

Jones, L. (2004). The development of a multicultural student services office and retention strategy for minority students Still miles to... 

To date, studies of the effects of busing have produced inconclusive results. Some studies report improved achievement of minority students but under certain conditions. For example, if their education began early in a desegregated school with a multicultural curriculum. However, other studies report negative effects on minority student achievement - especially when the minority students are... 

An alternative to assimilation is to make clear to students that they may cross the sociological border into science with their cultural identity both intact and, perhaps, valued. This is a specific goal of the work of Middlecamp and Subramaniam (1999). Within the biological sciences, including gender as a specific component of course content is a more obvious move than in chemistry (Birke 2001). There are more studies in which a connection of chemistry to sociology occurs through the lens of race and ethnicity, for example, in the Project Inclusion work of Hayes and Perez (1997) and the multicultural examples developed by Middlecamp and Fernandez (1999). 

If the IHV time gap between the past-century scientist and the student should prove to be too large for some students to care to bridge, Abrams and Wandersee (1995) have applied the same technique to present-day science by writing IHVs featuring contemporary scientists at work in field and laboratory. Such IHV writing also expands the possibilities for inclusion of multicultural depth and of current controversies in science and society. 

The attention to diversity logically led to a focus on inclusive curricula, as colleges and universities responded to student demands for meaningful and relevant courses for example, through African American and women s studies, and later through the infusion of multicultural content throughout all academic... 

A few years after the merger, the provost convened a universitywide committee to consider these multicultural and international legacies and how to advance them. Committee members hosted meetings on their respective campuses and invited students, staff, and faculty to attend and share their perspectives on diversity, on multicultural and international issues, and particularly on whether and how the university might recommit itself to this work. 

However, international issues are increasingly seen as integrally related to domestic diversity issues they are being viewed as another important area of diversity in which differences based on power and privilege affect opportunities and outcomes. Over the past decade, the American Council on Education (ACE) has sponsored several initiatives to address the historical divide between multicultural education and internationalization and to foster an exploration of common goals and opportunities, with the ultimate aim of graduating students who are culturally competent citizens of the world (see Olson et al., 2007). 

Teasley, M., Rice, J. (1996). What is social justice Perspectives on multiculturalism and cultural diversity, 6(2), 1-3. http //www.students.vcu.edu/counseFMC/justice.html. 

Irvine, J.J., York, D.E. (1995). Learning Styles and Culturally Diverse Students A Literature Review. In J.A. Banks (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education. New York Simon Schuster Macmillan. 

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