Dear Ms. Karen Riley-Brown

I am writing to inform you that i read one interest book about your topics.

 Ritchhart R. (2015) Creating cultures of thinking, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.

I hope I have been of some help.

Best regards,

Andrija

Dear Ms. Karen Riley-Brown,

I am pleased ta announce that I have one book in PDF file.

Please find attached book as a PDF file.

Best regards,

Andrija

Dear Ms. Karen Riley-Brown,

 I should admit that you are a very studious researcher with insightful questions about culture. Admittedly, there are are many definitions for cultures in academic contexts; however, the one provided by Barnett (1990)  is more relevant because it addresses the  academic culture. Under the new perspective, academic culture is defined as, " 

…a shared set of meanings, beliefs, understanding and ideas; in short, a taken-for-granted way of life, in which there is a reasonably clear difference between those on the inside and those on the outside of the community. Part of the sharing, and sense of the community,resides in the taken-for-granted aspects of the culture. (Barnett, 1990, p. 97). Regarding the key elements you are looking for, I refer you to certain links that are not the ones in the bibliography you have attached.

Best regards,

R. Biria

https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/1259/1/L%40C_Journal_Volume_2_number_1_-_Article_3.pdf

https://www.uv.uio.no/iped/forskning/.../HEIK-Utd2020-Part2-Changing_cultures.pdf

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED492430.pdf

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/16/tierney

 I think educating students and faculty on cultural diversity in the US HE system is key to understanding this culture. Without such an understanding, issues such as cultural insensitivity and invisibility in the curriculum can result.

Many thanks,

Debra

Article Workforce Education and Development (WED): Graduate Students...

Data Generation I: International and invisible in a workforce edu...

Data Curriculum Inclusiveness Challenge: Responding to Multicultu...

Dear Debra:

Thank you for your response regarding cultural sensitivity.  Also, thank you for the articles.  I am reading the first article, 

Article: Workforce Education and Development (WED): Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Cultural Insensitivity in Classroom Teaching – A Mixed Methods Study (C'bean Educational Research Journal, 3(1), 27-43)

What is the key element in understanding cultures in higher education today?. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_key_element_in_understanding_cultures_in_higher_education_today#view=58eead9148954c19f5221855 [accessed Apr 12, 2017].

It amazes me that it still comes down to trust when one looks forward to the cultural diversity agenda moving forward and the practice to be there.  Follow-up on the proposed measures is extremely important so as not to default on programs that can be attained.  

I will continue to review these findings.  Thanks again!

Please you can equally peruse through this work by Griffith, R. L., Wolfeld, L., Armon, B. K., Rios, J. and Liu, O. L. (2016), Assessing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: Existing Research and Future Directions. ETS Research Report Series, 2016: 1–44. doi:10.1002/ets2.12112.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ets2.12112/full [ Accessed 13/ 4/ 2017]

Good luck to your project

 am agree with the answer

I should admit that you are a very studious researcher with insightful questions about culture. Admittedly, there are are many definitions for cultures in academic contexts; however, the one provided by Barnett (1990) is more relevant because it addresses the academic culture. Under the new perspective, academic culture is defined as, "

…a shared set of meanings, beliefs, understanding and ideas; in short, a taken-for-granted way of life, in which there is a reasonably clear difference between those on the inside and those on the outside of the community. Part of the sharing, and sense of the community,resides in the taken-for-granted aspects of the culture. (Barnett, 1990, p. 97). Regarding the key elements you are looking for, I refer you to certain links that are not the ones in the bibliography you have attached.

What is the key element in understanding cultures in higher education today?. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_key_element_in_understanding_cultures_in_higher_education_today [accessed Apr 14, 2017].

Dear Ms. Karen Rily-Brown,

I teach an elective class of post graduate students, who represent four different disciplines of the sciences and humanities. I discovered that each of them have different experiences and hence a culture of diversity. It matters to understand their experiences, as it determines how they perceive what you teach and absorb knowledge.

Racism and bigotry have not been alleviated in our society. At best, ethnocentrism has been tempered through exposure for the evil that it is. The need exists to further educate students and educators alike about the requisite understanding of our diverse cultures. It is shortsighted to merely ignore cultural differences and expect that anything good a culture has to offer will be integrated into our mainstream values. Few educators would deny that steps should continue to be taken to encourage multiculturalism. It is safe to conclude that multiculturalism will have ever-increasing importance to education and the nation in the years to come.

Dear Kiran Grover:

Very well said.  I noticed in one article, entitled Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1997), PauloFiere, argues about the functions of many traditional educational systems, such as preparing individuals to accept their roles within traditional corporate bureaucracies.

The Bibliography is pretty long for the articles dealing with this cultural phenomenon, either directly or indirectly.  Here are just a few:

References

Bailey, T.R. (2006, November). Research on institutional level practice for postsecondary student success.  Paper presented at the National Symposium on Postsecondary Student Success, Washington, DC.

Barefoot, B.O., Gardner, J.N., Cutright, M., Morris, L.V., Schroeder, C.C., Schwartz, S.W., et al. (2005). Achieving and sustaining institutional excellence for the first year of college. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Best Regards,

Karen 

Karen Riley-Brown Madam,

You rightly said,Thanks for giving objective link.

Not so obviously (almost by definition), the speed at which a culture is adapted, transformed, and growing in different traditions is manifested in all work cutlures--including academic ones, and this is especially important to keep up with when looking at academic administration..  Great  metacognitive development and growth is required to negotiate change because of this.

Culture is changing as people change due to demographics, globalization and internationalization.  Massification also plays a key role in cultural changes.  Technology cannot be overlooked in seeing how one's values and beliefs are affected.  Thus, we are dependent on the truths and reports of each individual and groups of individuals as well as observations in studies without bias.