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The Abandoned Mission in Public Higher Education

The Case of the California State University

By: Benjamin P. Bowser

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The Abandoned Mission in Public Higher Education

The Case of the California State University

By: Benjamin P. Bowser

The debate about how higher education is failing to play a role in reducing inequality often centers on elite colleges, while ignoring the numerous public colleges and universities that educate the majority of our students. This book adds to the discussion by exploring an in-depth case study of the largest public higher educational system in the United States, The California State University, with implications for other state systems as well. Benjamin P. Bowser, experienced faculty member and author, discusses higher education reforms in response to increasing tuition, underprepared graduates, and declining academic standards. Focusing on the faculty perspective, this text examines how these reforms can threaten the mission of a public institution, only exacerbating the crisis of higher education and inequality.

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Taylor & Francis

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1134974639

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9781134974634

Preventing AIDS

Community-Science Collaborations

By: R Dennis Shelby,Benjamin Bowser,Shiraz Mishra,Cathy Reback

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Preventing AIDS

Community-Science Collaborations

By: R Dennis Shelby,Benjamin Bowser,Shiraz Mishra,Cathy Reback

Learn how to create professional collaboration between HIV/AIDS researchers and community organizations for the benefit of all! This book is designed to help frontline prevention organizations answer two questions that are of utmost importance. First, how effective are their services; and second, can their work be improved? The absence of rigorous evaluation is a barrier to stable funding for community organizations, and the strategies in Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations can help overcome that barrier. The book is a guide to successful cooperative efforts between researchers and community-based organizations. The information it presents will help community-based programs acquire detailed, timely information on program effectiveness and outcomes. It also provides researchers with methods for accessing hard-to-reach or hidden HIV high-risk groups. Handy tables and figures make important data easy to access and understand. In Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations, you’ll learn about the difficult but critically important collaboration between community organizations who do frontline prevention work and university scientists who evaluate the effectiveness of that work. The book describes the community-researcher equal partner collaboration (CREPC) model for community-based collaborative research. In addition, it examines six unique efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS among high-risk populations, such as prostitutes, injection drug users, impoverished pregnant women, migrant workers, transgendered persons, and prison inmates. The case studies in Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations describe the frustrations of outreach workers and counselors who suddenly must help design a survey they fear will be intrusive, and the parallel problems faced by scientists who are told that their traditional measures mean little to outreach workers. Preventing AIDS: Community-Science Collaborations presents funders’ perspectives on collaborative AIDS research and examines the collaborative and funding aspects of: the CAL-PEP prevention programs for drug injectors and sex workers efforts to promote HIV prevention for migrant farm workers and evaluate those efforts’ effectiveness the ongoing collaboration between The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (University of California, San Francisco), Centerforce (a statewide nonprofit agency providing services and advocacy to prisoners and their families), and San Quentin State Prison the effort of the Los Angeles County HIV Epidemiology Program and three community-based organizations, which collaborate to provide culturally appropriate outreach and HIV education/prevention services to transgendered individuals of various ethnic origins San Francisco’s PHREDA project and the way its creators collaborated to better understand and serve high-risk women The U-Find-Out (UFO) Study, funded by the Universitywide AIDS Research Program of the State of California

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252

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Routledge

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1136392793

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9781136392795

Understanding Drug Use and Abuse

A Global Perspective

By: Benjamin P. Bowser,Carl O. Word,Toby Seddon

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Understanding Drug Use and Abuse

A Global Perspective

By: Benjamin P. Bowser,Carl O. Word,Toby Seddon

Addressing drug use and abuse as a global phenomenon, this text draws on contemporary and international research findings to examine the causes of drug use in different countries and to explore different policy responses to its prevention and treatment. It is an invaluable resource for students, practitioners and anyone concerned with drug use.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137402121

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9781137402127

Confronting Diversity Issues on Campus

By: Benjamin P. Bowser,Terry Jones

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Confronting Diversity Issues on Campus

By: Benjamin P. Bowser,Terry Jones

The authors of this volume discuss diversity issues such as admission policies and the role of ethnic studies departments, then suggest strategies for dealing with questions of racism, diversity and intercultural communication. Suggestions range from ways to improve intercultural interpersonal skills through to the broad structural changes needed if a university is to embrace its diverse population.

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121

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SAGE

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0803952163

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9780803952164

Impacts of Racism on White Americans

By: Raymond G. Hunt,Benjamin Bowser

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Impacts of Racism on White Americans

By: Raymond G. Hunt,Benjamin Bowser

What motivates white racism? What effects does racism have on white Americans? The Second Edition of this provocative book reveals that racism remains a pervasive force in American society and that its effects on whites are still misunderstood. Combining the contributions of sociologists, historians and economists, this new edition contains updated chapters which take account of the developments in American society over the past 15 years. The editors expand on the recommendations they presented in the First Edition, demonstrating clearly the progress made and, more significantly, what remains to be achieved.

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SAGE Publications

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1452246513

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9781452246512

The Abandoned Mission in Public Higher Education

The Case of the California State University

By: Benjamin P. Bowser

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The Case of the California State University

By: Benjamin P. Bowser

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The Abandoned Mission in Public Higher Education

The Abandoned Mission in Public Higher Education

Preventing AIDS

Preventing AIDS

Understanding Drug Use and Abuse

Understanding Drug Use and Abuse

Confronting Diversity Issues on Campus

Confronting Diversity Issues on Campus

Impacts of Racism on White Americans

Impacts of Racism on White Americans

The Abandoned Mission in Public Higher Education

The Abandoned Mission in Public Higher Education

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