The Impact of College Diversity: Struggles and Successes at Age 30 - Paperback
by Elizabeth Aries (Author)
In 2005, Elizabeth Aries chronicled what 58 Amherst College freshman-Black and white, affluent and lower-income-learned from racial and class diversity. Her study emphasized the value of campus diversity at elite colleges. Four years later, Aries interviewed the same students about their diversity experiences as they graduated. Now, eight years later, she re-interviews her participants to see how and to what extent race and class continue to play a role as they move into adulthood.
The Impact of College Diversity details how exposure to diversity in college helped shape Black and white graduates process issues of economic and racial privilege and inequality at age 30. She investigates how college diversity experiences also facilitate the attainment of upward social mobility in lower-income students and the role that mobility played in their relationships with family and friends in their home communities. Aries further examines how interactions with peers of another race and class influenced development of citizenship skills and civic engagement, as well as Black students' ability to cope with the challenges they faced in the professional world. Aries concludes her study with a discussion of why elite colleges have been beneficial in promoting upward mobility in lower-income students, and the importance of achieving equity and inclusion in making diversity initiatives successful.Elizabeth Aries is the Clarence Francis 1910 Professor in Social Sciences (Psychology) at Amherst College. She is the author of Race and Class Matters at an Elite College and Speaking of Race and Class: The StudentExperience at an Elite College (both Temple); Men and Women in Interaction: Reconsidering the Differences; and Adolescent Behavior: Readings and Interpretations; and coauthor of Gender Matters: The First Half-Century of Women Teaching at Amherst.
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