White Institutional Presence: The Impace of Whiteness on Campus Climate

1. Higher Education Retention Literature (White Cultural Ideology)

1.1. Cultural Practices

1.2. traditions

1.3. Perceptions of Knowledge

1.4. Vizenor addressed this kinda in Manifest Manner - aversions to tribes creates racialization

2. Experiences of African American undergraduates

2.1. marginalisation

2.2. discrimination

3. White Mainstream Ideology

3.1. White Ascendancy

3.1.1. Sense of Superiority

3.1.2. Sense of entitlement

3.1.3. domination over racial discourse

3.1.4. white victimization

3.1.4.1. Whites feel reduced by multiculturalism

3.1.4.2. victimized by affirmitive action

3.1.4.3. personally attacked in discussions of racism when white entitlement is disrupted

3.1.5. reflects social behavior

3.2. Monoculturalism

3.2.1. reflects organizational behavior

3.3. White Estrangement

3.4. White Blindness

4. Cultural Audit (pg 480)

4.1. 1. understand minority engagement in class

4.2. 2. review campus docs to determine culture being advocated

4.3. 3. focus on disciplines where engagement of racial/ethnic minority students is low