Toward Reflective Admission Work. Part 1: Making the Case for a Transformative Approach to Admission Practice and Reflection in Action

This article is a research project which explores that problem with a particular view toward underrepresented students whose life and profile often do not match the life and profile of admission officers who recruit and select them. The authors assert that if vast changes are made with regard to the experiences and the richness that underrepresented students bring to campuses, admission staff must make counter-cultural shifts in how they view their work. They must also generate methods of daily practice that ensure that a diversity of voices can always be heard, and on equal terms. Institutions must think about how to generate such possibilities on their campus for their admission staff, regardless of the previous history of success or cultural make-up of the student body. [This article has been reprinted in this 2006 issue of "Journal of College Admission." For the original indexing of this article in "Journal of College Admission" n179 p6-13 Spr 2003, see EJ664172.]