{"product_id":"9781620368015","title":"Contested Issues in Troubled Times: Student Affairs Dialogues on Equity, Civility, and Safety","description":"\u003ci\u003eContested Issues in Troubled Times\u003c\/i\u003e provides student affairs educators with frameworks to constructively think about and navigate the contentious climate they are increasingly encountering on campus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 54 contributors address the book’s overarching question: How do we create an equitable climate conducive to learning in a dynamic environment fraught with complexity and a socio-political context characterized by escalating intolerance, incivility, and overt discrimination?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRather than attempting to offer readers definitive solutions, this book illustrates the possibilities and promise of acknowledging multiple approaches to addressing contentious issues, articulating a persuasive argument anchored in professional judgment, listening attentively to others for points of connection as well as divergence, and drawing upon new ways of thinking to foster safe and inclusive campuses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the issues this volume addresses are such topics as sexual violence; historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups; transgender and undocumented students; the professional skills, knowledge and\/or dispositions needed to thrive and facilitate systemic change in contemporary higher education organizations; the implications of maintaining personal and professional identities via social media; and self-care.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this companion volume to \u003ci\u003eContested Issues in Student Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e (whose issues remain as relevant today as they were upon publication in 2011), a new set of contributors explore new questions which foreground issues of equity, safety, and civility – themes which dominate today’s higher education headlines and campus conversations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book concludes with calls to action, encouraging student affairs educators to exhibit the moral courage needed to critically examine routine practices that (un)knowingly perpetuate inequity and enact the foundational values and principles upon which the student affairs profession was founded.","brand":"Stylus Publishing (VA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031758913776,"sku":"9781620368015","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781620368015_p0.jpg?v=1763858605","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781620368015","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}