Degrees of Choice: social class, race and gender in higher education

Black colleges and universities was particularly well-researched, complete, and informative. hirt adds to the readability and digestibility of her wealth of information by employing a consistent structure throughout her chapters. identical subheadings and sections across chapters guide the reader through the discussion of the voluminous data summarized in the book. history, characteristics, nature of student affairs work, relationships, rewards, and conclusions by institutional type are reviewed by section in each chapter. subsections, similarly and consistently presented, review information about faculty, use of time, work environment, and mission. given the detail by institutional type, this book is perhaps…