Category: Campus Life

  • The New Multiracial Student: Where Do We Start? The Vermont Connection Volume 31 (2010) pages 128-135 Jackie Hyman University of Vermont Jackie Hyman earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008, and is anticipating her graduation from HESA in 2010. Having gone through periods of doubt and confusion throughout…

  • UCLA needs more than just one multiethnic club Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-10-11 Salim Zymet Only one student group promoting multiracialism is not enough for a campus as diverse as ours Where are you from? Answering that question can be difficult for some multiracial students. Perhaps you’re inclined to believe that despite…

  • New multiracial category has effects nationally, few at Smith The Smith College Sophian Northampton, Massachusetts 2010-09-30 Gina Charusombat While Smith students speculate about the lack of diversity across disciplines of study, colleges and universities across the U.S. continue to track diversity on their campuses. On Sept. 19, the Chronicle of Higher Education revealed that the…

  • Panel discusses race, identity Indiana Daily Student 2009-11-06 Therese Kennelly Graduate student Fileve Palmer said though her parents always talked about their diverse backgrounds with her, she still struggled to find a way to relay her identity to others. She struggled throughout her life to retain her African-American identity, while society viewed her as Puerto…

  • Psychological Adjustment, Behavior and Health Problems in Multiracial Young Adults University of Maryland, College Park 2006 236 pages Warren L. Kelley Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2006 This study: (1) examined…

  • Multiracial College Students: Understanding Interpersonal Self-Concept in the First Year The University of Michigan 2010 151 pages Mark Allen Kamimura A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Education) in The University of Michigan 2010 This purpose of this study was to explore the differences between mixed…

  • Perceptions, Representation, and Identity Development of Multiracial Students in American Higher Education Journal of Student Affairs at New York University Volume VI, 2010 pages 1-6 Roberta Garbarini-Philippe New York University In my article I first examine some historical facts and policy issues related to multiracial individuals, giving a few examples of how this population has…

  • HapaSC: A Place Multiracial Call Home Campus Circle News Los Angeles, California 2010-08-16 Stephanie Forshee Multiracial students at USC [University of Southern California] like Lauren Perez are devoting time to create a place where you can express every part of yourself. HapaSC is an organization of about 30 USC students that raises awareness for “mixed”…

  • The Risks of Multiracial Identification The Chronicle of Higher Education 2006-11-10 Naomi Schaefer Riley The comment period has closed on proposed new guidelines from the U.S. Department of Education on how colleges should ask students about race. No longer, the guidelines say, should applicants simply be given the choice of black, white, Asian, American Indian…

  • Racial Quotas and the Culture War in Brazilian Academia Sociology Compass Volume 4 Issue 8 (August 2010) Pages 592 – 604 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2010.00295.x Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Michelle Peria University of California, Irvine Dozens of Brazilian universities recently adopted racial quotas for negros, read Afro-Brazilians, in higher education. Anyone…