Student Movements for Multiculturalism: Challenging the Curricular Color Line in Higher Education. (Between the Lines).By David Yamane; The Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. Press, 2001 (paperback 2002), 193 pp.; $17.95 Curricular requirements emphasizing a multicultural perspective may seem commonplace, but, until recently, such requirements were a rarity, says author David Yamane. Student Movements student movements, designation given to the ideas and activities of student groups involved in social protest. Historically, student movements have been in existence almost as long as universities themselves. As early as the 4th cent. for Multiculturalism is the story of efforts to add such courses to offerings at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. . Yamane says these efforts were spearheaded not by administrators pursuing a political agenda but by students seeking to amend deficiencies that they perceived in the curriculum. This account of recent higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. history is a study in the power of students to affect their education. |
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