Universities and Global Diversity Preparing Educators for Tomorrow [Paperback]

This volume seeks to critically examine the nexus between globalization and diversity as it affects the preparation of professional educators on several continents, taking into account the extensive changes in economic, sociopolitical, and cultural dynamics within nations and regions that have occurred in the last decade.

Foreword  Ambassador James Joseph and AACTE CEO Dr. Sharon Porter Robinson.  Preface to the New Decade  Beverly Lindsay and Wanda J. Blanchett  1. Universities and Global Diversity: Preparing Educators for Tomorrow  Beverly Lindsay and Wanda J. Blanchett  Part I: Geopolitical and Regional Matters in Higher Education  2. The University in Turbulent Times: A Comparative Study of the U.S. and Russia  Nelly Stromquist and Anna Smolentseva  3. Beyond Globalization: Possibilities and Challenges in Korea and China  Kiwan Sung  4. Globalizing Higher Education in the Middle East  Issam Khoury and Beverly Lindsay  5. Shifting Tides in Jamaican Higher Education  Beverly Lindsay  Part II: Unique Colleges and Universities and Global Influences  6. Historically Black Colleges and Universities in New Orleans: Domestic and Global Engagement in the Post-Katrina Era  Beverly Lindsay and Tara Scales Williams  7. Native American Tribal Colleges and Universities: Utilizing Indigenous Knowledges and Ways of Knowing to Prepare Native Peoples to Meet the Demands of an Increasingly Globalized Community John Tippeconnic III and Susan Faircloth  8. Urban Support Networks: Commuter Urban Public Universities in Global Times  Jorgelina Abbate-Vaughn and Donna DeGelC†