The View from Student Affairs: Five Takes on "PC," Diversity, and Community.

Gamson, Zelda

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ERIC Number: EJ433138

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1991

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The View from Student Affairs: Five Takes on "PC," Diversity, and Community.

Gamson, Zelda

Change, v23 n5 p40-47 Sep-Oct 1991

A conversation among senior student affairs professionals concerning college cultural pluralism and "political correctness" illustrates three stages of paradigm shift in higher education, including (1) a single dominant culture, (2) multiple cultures existing alongside each other; and (3) multiple cultures retaining their identities but being harmonized into a new whole. (MSE)

Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Environment, Cultural Pluralism, Developmental Stages, Higher Education, Multicultural Education, Student Personnel Services

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Audience: Administrators; Practitioners

Language: English

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