Drawing on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Critical Whiteness Studies, I use portraiture to analyze and vividly describe the subtlest of racial microaggressions proffered by white college students against Students of Color in College Algebra group work. In illustrating this racist abuse, this paper also builds on racial microaggression theory and…

A classic belief of the university as a place of public discourse (Arendt, 1979) without the need for close emotional connections (d'Entreves, 2019) is being challenged. As American colleges progressively evolve into large pluralistic societies that are interacting in transnational ways (Sweeny, Weaven, & Herington, 2008) across mass…

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms…

In basic writing classrooms and scholarship, reading too often remains invisible; neither research nor established practice provides tangible activities to support reading and connect it to writing. This article documents a search for structured, scaffolded, low-stakes reading activities, a search that moves off the college campus and into the…

Alternative certification programs are changing the face of the teaching profession. Not only have these programs attracted individuals from different disciplines and educational backgrounds, they have also changed the ethnic and gender makeup of the classroom teaching population. This suggests an increase in point-of-view diversity in the…