Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Philip H. Jordan, Jr.
  • Majority, minority, and the numbers game / Margaret B. Wilkerson
  • The "traditional" undergraduate woman in the mid-1980s : a changing profile / Anne L. Hafner
  • Finding a way : Black women students and the academy / Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Patricia Bell-Scott
  • Hispanic women students in higher education : meeting the challenge of diversity / Sara E. Meléndez, Janice Petrovich
  • Undercurrents, maelstroms, or the mainstream? A profile of Asian Pacific American female students in higher education / Joanne Sanae Yamauchi, Tin-Mala
  • American Indian women in higher education : common threads and diverse experiences / Robbi Ferron
  • Reentry women in the academy : the contributions of a feminist perspective / Jean F. O'Barr
  • Mapping a country : what lesbian students want / Toni A.H. McNaron
  • Enhancing the effectiveness of postsecondary education for women with disabilities / Yvonne Duffy
  • Recognizing the diversity of women's voices by psychological type / Faith Gabelnick, Carol S. Pearson
  • The meaning of Gilligan's concept of "different voice" for the learning environment / Carolyn DesJardins
  • Women's colleges : exceptional conditions, not exceptional talent, produce high achievers / M. Elizabeth Tidball
  • A luminous minority : the contributions of Catholic women's colleges / Abigail McCarthy
  • Women's studies, feminist goals, and the science of women / Marilyn J. Boxer
  • Black women's studies : a view from the margin / Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Patricia Bell-Scott
  • Women's centers as agents of change / Jane S. Gould
  • Empowering women student leaders : a leadership development model / Mary M. Leonard, Brenda Alpert Sigall
  • From the playing fields and courts / L. Leotus Morrison.
  • From the circle of the elite to the world of the whole : education, equality, and excellence / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich
  • Educating women in science / Judith Harris, JoAnn Silverstein, Dianne Andrews
  • Rethinking the ways we teach / Barrie Thorne
  • Leadership in the university curriculum / Carolyn M. Shrewsbury
  • The culture of separated desks / Elizabeth Dodson Gray
  • Toward a new concept of career development / Carole W. Minor
  • What actually works : the one-to-one approach / Mary P. Rowe
  • Toward equity in academe : an overview of strategies for action / Karen Bogart
  • Curricular re-vision : the new knowledge for a new age / Peggy Means McIntosh
  • Educating the majority : the feminist enlightenment / Jessie Bernard
  • The new agenda of women for higher education / Donna L. Shavlik, Judith G. Touchton, Carol S. Pearson.