September-October 2000

Features

Intellectual Workers and Essential Freedoms
By Christopher Edley, Jr.
Academics and journalists must earn their First Amendment rights, a legal scholar tells the AAUP's annual meeting.

Why Race Matters
By Jeffrey F. Milem
Both schools and students benefit from diversity in higher education.

Diversity Yes, Preferences No
By Abigail Thernstrom
A critic of affirmative action questions its value in higher education.

New Faces, New Knowledge
By Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner
Diversifying the faculty brings fresh scholarship to the campus.

The Diversity Project:Institutionalizing Multiculturalism or Managing Differences?
By Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Universities call for diversity, but they rarely go beyond words. Their inadequate support for ethnic studies is a case in point.

Diversity and Its Contradictions
By Benjamin Baez
Emphasizing the value of difference may protect affirmative action, but it may also reinforce the inequality that affirmative action seeks to erase.

How to Diversify the Faculty
By Daryl G. Smith
Begin by debunking myths and changing hiring practices.

Wheaton Does Diversity
By Paula M. Krebs
How one small department brought scholars of color onto its faculty.