"This inspiring book wonderfully fuses scholarship, personal experiences, and pragmatism, offering penetrating analyses of the challenges and benefits of living and teaching diversity and identifying conditions needed for transformation."
- Caroline Hodges Persell (author of Education and Inequality: The Roots and Results of Stratification in America's Schools) "Transforming the Academy chronicles the meaning behind the sweeping changes in college classroom diversity, the benefits that greater diversity brings to educational institutions, and the unique challenges faced by groups historically shut out from post-secondary education. This book is required reading for ANYONE who works in higher education or is preparing someone to attend college."
- Charles Gallagher (author of Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race) "Taken together, these personal narratives provide powerful, often moving, evidence of the continuing struggle for greater inclusivity and diversity on US campuses ... The contributors to this volume, mostly young and female, should be commended for opening their academic lives to help open our eyes to the ongoing need for change."
(H-Teach) "A remarkably cohesive whole with themes that transcend individual anecdotes or identity markers. This is a book, as Willie-LeBreton proposes, that has the potential to shed light where it is needed, to bring people together under a common purpose, and to celebrate the work people are already doing to help their campuses fulfill the promise of diversity."
(Harvard Educational Review)
