Article
Grabbing Third Rails: Courageous Responses to Persistent Equity Gaps
Liberal Education
(2017)
Abstract
Student success efforts often focus on issues related to students’ college-readiness. But the authors of a recent book, Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success, challenge higher education professionals to take a different approach. “Just imagine,” they suggest, “if . . . instead of seeking the ideal student, we became the ideal college.”1 The admission of increasingly greater numbers of students from groups traditionally underserved by higher education underscores the urgency of this call to refocus on the readiness of the college or university, rather than on the readiness of the student. Having already faced various academic and nonacademic impediments, underrepresented students come to us for help in fulfilling their educational aspirations. Unfortunately, far too often, a disheartening disjunction persists between our promise to these underrepresented students and our ability to deliver on this promise.2
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring 2017
Citation Information
Prystowsky, R., Herrera, J., Crowley, C., Lowery-Hart, R., & Fannon, S. (2017).
Grabbing third rails: Courageous responses to persistent equity gaps. Liberal
Education, 103(2), 44-49.