Student Movements for Multiculturalism: Challenging the Curricular Color Line in Higher Education

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Eric Swank ◽  
David Yamane
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Color Line

scholarly journals A Perspective on Higher Education Through the Lens of a Student Activist

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
Saron Gebresellassi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Undocumented Students ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
Education Politics ◽  
International Solidarity ◽  
High Tuition ◽  
Justice Movements

Both historically and present day, students and youth have been at the forefront of social justice movements. Environmental justice, defence of undocumented students, whistleblower protection, international solidarity and labour rights are among a myriad of issues which have emerged to expand the range and scope of equitable education politics within student movements. This commentary provides a perspective on higher education through the lens of one student activist. This reflection shares some thoughts on the implications of high tuition fees for marginalized communities and emphasizes the importance of youth activism in advancing the struggle for accessible postsecondary education and socioeconomic justice domestically and abroad.

Beyond the Cultural Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-258
Author(s):  
Jingzhou Liu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Chinese International Students ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Canadian Higher Education ◽  
Intercultural Adaptation

AbstractChinese international students are vital to internationalization development in Canadian higher education, providing immediate and significant social and economic benefits to Canadian society. The existing scholarly studies have primarily adopted a cultural approach, with a focus on intercultural adaptation or related cross-cultural perspectives. This study goes beyond the cultural approach and examines how race, gender, and class intersect in producing social inequality among Chinese international students in Canada. Through the narratives of five students attending higher education institutions in British Columbia, the study reveals that Chinese international students have experienced discrimination in relation to developing friendship, integrating to the learning environment, and accessing supports and resources on campus based on the color of skin, their gender, and misperception of their class. The color line divides them into the “dominant white” and “people of color.” Color blindness negates their racial identities and ignores the ways in which these affect their learning experiences. The findings of this research call for an intersectional approach to examine international students and their lived experiences by addressing students’ multiple identities and differences to enrich their lived experience in Canada.

Student Movements and User Fees: Trends in the Effect of Social Background and Family Income on Access to Mexican Higher Education, 1984-1996

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Post
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Equality Of Opportunity ◽  
User Fees ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Income Quartile

The 1999 strike at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) mobilized students around the demand for free public higher education to promote equality of opportunity. In the wake of that movement, it is necessary to evaluate the effects of user fees and of free tuition in promoting equality of opportunity. For this purpose, I used the Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso-Gasto to gauge the impact of family background and household income on the chances for attending higher education since 1984. Despite the low user fees charged in Mexico's public universities during the period, the data show that selectivity by family income worsened. Private universities, always selective, remained so. More worrisome is the fact that, by the mid 1990s, young people living in the poorest income quartile of households were less than ten times as likely to attend public higher education, as compared with children from the richest quartile of households. Free tuition in itself is unlikely to promote equality of access, because the beneficiaries of free tuition--increasingly--came from upper income families. / La huelga de 1999 en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) mobilizó a los estudiantes en torno a la exigencia de una educación pública gratuita que promoviera una igualdad en la oportunidad a acceder a instituciones de educación superior. En el despertar de ese movimiento, es necesario evaluar los efectos de los pagos del usuario y de la enseñanza gratuita en la promoción de dicha igualdad de oportunidad. Por ende, utilicé la Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso-Gasto para calcular el impacto que han tenido el trasfondo social familiar y los ingresos de la familia en cuanto al acceso a la educación avanzada desde 1984. A pesar que durante el período ya mencionado las universidades públicas de México cobran muy poco al estudiante, las estadisticas ejemplifican que las universidades públicas no aceptan a los estudiantes a base de los ingresos familiares del estudiante. Las universidades privadas, que siempre han sido selectivas, continúan siéndolo. Lo que preocupa más es que, para mediados de la década de los noventa, la juventud que vive en los sectores más pobres ha perdido la oportunidad diez veces más de asistir a universidades públicas que los jóvenes que viven en sectores más adinerados de la ciudad. No es probable que la enseñanza gratuita en sí promueva la igualdad de acceso a universidades públicas, ya que los beneficiarios de la enseñanza gratuita--cada vez más--provienen de familias con altos ingresos.

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