" ... provides a guide to improving your GPA, gaining college admission, winning awards and fellowships, and networking for academic and career success"--Page 4 of cover.

"The author argues that diversity in higher education is good for all students because it makes learning richer and more complex. She proposes plans for how traditional institutions can become laboratories of diversity. The third edition adds discussion about the job of director of diversity and addresses the current climate of race-based campus protest"--

College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors--and their coffers--to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to let them in? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they've arrived on campus. In their first weeks they quickly learn that admission does not mean acceptance. In this bracing and necessary book, Jack documents how university policies...

A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination. Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for the African American community. She taught at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute but also joined the segregated...