- Title
- Counting on demographic equity to transform institutional cultures at historically white South African universities?:
- Creator
- Booi, Masixole, Vincent, Louise, Liccardo, Sabrina
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141946
- Identifier
- vital:38018
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2017.1289155
- Description
- The post-apartheid higher education transformation project is faced with the challenge of recruiting and retaining black academics and other senior staff. But when we shift the focus from participation rates to equality–inequality within historically white universities (HWUs), then the discourse changes from demographic equity and redress to institutional culture and diversity. HWUs invoke the need to maintain their position as leading higher education institutions globally, and notions of ‘quality’ and ‘excellence’ have emerged as discursive practices, which serve to perpetuate exclusion. The question then arises as to which forms of capital comprise the Gold Standard at HWUs? Several South African universities have responded to the challenge of recruiting and retaining black academics by initiating programmes for the ‘accelerated development’ of these candidates.
- Format
- 13 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Higher Education Research and Development, Booi, M., Vincent, L. and Liccardo, S., 2017. Counting on demographic equity to transform institutional cultures at historically white South African universities?. Higher Education Research and Development, 36(3), pp.498-510., Higher Education Research and Development volume 36 number 3 498 510 March 2017 1469-8366
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