May-June 2004

May-June 2004

Volume 90, Number 3

Contents

Features

E-Racing History: America's Struggle with Diversity, Race, and Affirmative Action in Higher Education
By Walter R. Allen
It is crucial to consider race, equity, and affirmative action in all their complexity to understand fully the significance of diversity in higher education.

Women and Retirement: Reflections from the Field
By Judith Glazer-Raymo
It is crucial to consider race, equity, and affirmative action in all their complexity to understand fully the significance of diversity in higher education.

Bright Networks and Dark Spaces: Implications of Manuel Castells for Higher Education
By Simon Marginson
How does higher education fit into a world where the coordinates of space and time are being transformed?

Identity and Community in the Academy: Ascription and Affiliation
By Kristen A. Renn
The question of self in the academy affects both the individual and the collective identities of faculty and students.

The Influence of Athletics in the University Community
By Murray Sperber
How do athletics affect the academic mission and nature of higher education?

Academics in Literature
By Catharine R. Stimpson
The contradictory representation of academic life in literature offers a long and rich history full of both negative and positive portrayals.

Rekindling the Dialogue: Education According to Plato and Dewey
By Stephen R. Van Luchene
Where are we to look to rekindle the dialogue and pluralism that gave life to our multiform system of education?

Letters to the Editor

Chinese Higher Education
Xiao Jin, Michael Agelasto, Richard T. Heckman, John A. Hogan, Russell Leigh Moses

Professors' Trading Cards
Pamela Sankar and Martin Perline

Affirmative Action
James Gholson

AAUP At Work

Nota Bene

Columns

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