Responding to Diversity: Enhancing a University's Teaching Practice for Minority Students

• In Event: Roundtable Session 33
  In Roundtable Session: Multicultural Higher Education Theory and Practice

Abstract

Abstract
The increasing population of minority students in higher education in the United States makes attention to the issue of how to improve current educational philosophies, instruction and curriculum design, investment, and organization to meet the need of minority students vital. A “teaching gap” between minority students’ learning experiences---curriculum, pedagogy, interactions, and faculty’s pedagogical responses to them, exists in American post secondary education. A more specific set of issues and possibilities in terms of teaching practices for minority students need to be explored in more detail in higher education settings. This qualitative research study addressed this knowledge gap by examining college minority student learning and faculty’s teaching practice in a specific university in the United States.

Author

• Huanshu Yuan, University of Washington - Seattle