Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life / / Bonnie Urciuoli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Urciuoli, Bonnie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION Diversity, Markedness, and the Liberal Arts College --; CHAPTER 1 What Is Liberal Arts Education ‘For’? --; CHAPTER 2 Marketing and Admissions: Regimenting the Imagery of Markedness --; CHAPTER 3 The Administrative Structures of Student Life --; CHAPTER 4 Turning Markedness into Culture --; CHAPTER 5 Students Just Wanna Have Fun --; CHAPTER 6 Where Is the Faculty in All This? --; Conclusion --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800731776; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800731776
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bonnie Urciuoli.

As neoliberalism has expanded from corporations to higher education, the notion of “diversity” is increasingly seen as the contribution of individuals to an organization. By focusing on one liberal arts college, author Bonnie Urciuoli shows how schools market themselves as “diverse” communities to which all members contribute. She explores how students of color are recruited, how their lives are institutionally organized, and how they provide the faces, numbers, and stories that represent schools as diverse. In doing so, she finds that unlike students’ routine experiences of racism or other social differences, neoliberal diversity is mainly about improving schools’ images.