Assessing Our Commitment to Multiculturalism: Student Perspectives

A Pilot Study of Students' Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Multicultural Concepts: A Pre- and Post-Course Analysis

“…Myer and Rhoades (2006) discuss the concept of educators truly understanding and respecting different cultures, and not just recognizing their existence, to truly achieve the goals of a diversity issues course. Several research studies have been conducted looking at diversity from the perspective of students; however, these studies failed to examine if students were increasing their multicultural awareness (Barron et al, 2007;Dwyer, 2006;Higbee, Siaka, & Brunch, 2007a, 2007b. This study attempts to measure a change in students' perceptions of multicultural awareness after completing a course in diversity issues within the hospitality industry.…”

Pedagogy of Inclusion: Integrated Multicultural Instructional Design

“…The questionnaire was further revised with feedback from respondents after which separate parallel survey forms were developed for (a) faculty and instructional staff, (b) student development professionals, (c) administrators, and (d) students, and published by CRDEUL in 2003 as the Multicultural Awareness Projectfor Institutional Transformation (MAP IT; . The next step was to assess student perceptions using the MAP IT tool (Bruch, Higbee, & Siaka, 2007;Higbee, Bruch, & Siaka, 2008;Higbee & Siaka, 2005;Higbee, Siaka, & Bruch, 2007a, 2007b. Again the results were generally positive, with most item means between 2.80 and 3.20 on a 4-point, Likert-type scale, but faculty and staff members were concerned that more needed to be done to ensure that they "walked the talk" (Bruch, Higbee, Jehangir, & Siaka, 2004).…”

Creating A Model For Graduate Student Inclusion And Success

“…Prior to and during the transition from a college to a department, GC faculty, staff, and students engaged in an extensive series of projects to explore college climate and inclusion for a diverse population of students (Barron, Pieper, Lee, Nantharath, Higbee, & Schultz, 2007;Bruch & Higbee, 2002;Bruch, Higbee, Jehangir, & Siaka, 2004;Bruch, Higbee, & Siaka, 2007;Bruch, Jehangir, Lundell, Higbee, & Miksch, 2005;Clinton & Higbee, 2011; Ghere, The Clute Institute Kampsen, Duranczyk, & Christensen, 2007;Higbee, 2009;Higbee & Barajas, 2007;Higbee, Bruch, & Siaka, 2008;Higbee, Duranczyk, & Ghere, 2008;Higbee & Goff, 2008;Higbee, Lundell, & Duranczyk, 2003, 2008Higbee, Miksch, Jehangir, Lundell, Bruch, & Jiang, 2004;Higbee & Siaka, 2005;Higbee, Siaka, & Bruch, 2007a, 2007bJehangir, 2008Jehangir, , 2009Jehangir, Yamasaki, Ghere, Hugg, Williams, & Higbee, 2002;Miksch, Higbee, Jehangir, Lundell, Bruch, Siaka, & Dotson, 2003). These efforts eventually led to the development and assessment of a new pedagogical model for integrated multicultural instructional design (Higbee & Goff, 2015).…”