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Broadening the Definition of Diversity

A new book examines the strategies of faculty to serve as “change agents,” encouraging diversity on campus.

 

Teaching a sociology class at Bowdoin College as a graduate student taught Dr. Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude a thing or two about diversity.

 

There, she introduced her students to “multiple perspectives” on the subject through readings. The student body of Bowdoin, a historic, small, liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine, is more than 70 percent White, according to the school’s Web site.

 

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