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In this illuminating edited volume, Shafiqa Ahmadi and Darnell Cole uncover the unique challenges and opportunities that Muslim students face in American higher education. In doing so they provide an urgent perspective for both higher education scholars and student affairs professionals, and they offer all of us a vision for building inclusive community within higher education. --Varun Soni, Dean, Office of Religious and Spiritual Life University of Southern California

A seminal work of documented and expertly presented scholarship Islamophobia in Higher Education: Combating Discrimination and Creating Understanding is a critically important, timely, and unreservedly recommended addition to both college and university library Higher Education Administration, College & University Student Life, and Education Administration collections. -- Midwest Book Review In this volume, these editors bring together chapter authors who have expertise in the fields of international human rights, civil rights, criminal law, and higher education. The depth of content knowledge evidenced in each chapter deepens readers' understandings of Islamophobia and its harmful impact on Muslim students from various disciplines and perspectives. Given the misrepresentation of Muslims in general and Muslim students in higher education specifically, this important book aims to provide students, faculty, staff, student affairs professionals, scholars, and student leaders accurate information about Muslims and Muslim college students. It highlights diversity within the community and explores the effects of various laws and policies in higher education. It illustrates how Muslim college students often navigate stigma and stereotypes fueled by Islamophobic rhetoric. For these and numerous other substantive reasons, I highly recommend Islamophobia in Higher Education. --Shaun R. Harper, Professor in the Rossier School of Education and the Marshall School of Business; Founder and Executive Director of the USC Race and Equity Center University of Southern California In this illuminating edited volume, Shafiqa Ahmadi and Darnell Cole uncover the unique challenges and opportunities that Muslim students face in American higher education. In doing so they provide an urgent perspective for both higher education scholars and student affairs professionals, and they offer all of us a vision for building inclusive community within higher education. --Varun Soni, Dean, Office of Religious and Spiritual Life University of Southern California

In this illuminating edited volume, Shafiqa Ahmadi and Darnell Cole uncover the unique challenges and opportunities that Muslim students face in American higher education. In doing so they provide an urgent perspective for both higher education scholars and student affairs professionals, and they offer all of us a vision for building inclusive community within higher education. --Varun Soni, Dean, Office of Religious and Spiritual Life University of Southern California In this volume, these editors bring together chapter authors who have expertise in the fields of international human rights, civil rights, criminal law, and higher education. The depth of content knowledge evidenced in each chapter deepens readers' understandings of Islamophobia and its harmful impact on Muslim students from various disciplines and perspectives. Given the misrepresentation of Muslims in general and Muslim students in higher education specifically, this important book aims to provide students, faculty, staff, student affairs professionals, scholars, and student leaders accurate information about Muslims and Muslim college students. It highlights diversity within the community and explores the effects of various laws and policies in higher education. It illustrates how Muslim college students often navigate stigma and stereotypes fueled by Islamophobic rhetoric. For these and numerous other substantive reasons, I highly recommend Islamophobia in Higher Education. --Shaun R. Harper, Professor in the Rossier School of Education and the Marshall School of Business; Founder and Executive Director of the USC Race and Equity Center University of Southern California

In this illuminating edited volume, Shafiqa Ahmadi and Darnell Cole uncover the unique challenges and opportunities that Muslim students face in American higher education. In doing so they provide an urgent perspective for both higher education scholars and student affairs professionals, and they offer all of us a vision for building inclusive community within higher education. --Varun Soni, Dean, Office of Religious and Spiritual Life University of Southern California In this volume, these editors bring together chapter authors who have expertise in the fields of international human rights, civil rights, criminal law, and higher education. The depth of content knowledge evidenced in each chapter deepens readers' understandings of Islamophobia and its harmful impact on Muslim students from various disciplines and perspectives. Given the misrepresentation of Muslims in general and Muslim students in higher education specifically, this important book aims to provide students, faculty, staff, student affairs professionals, scholars, and student leaders accurate information about Muslims and Muslim college students. It highlights diversity within the community and explores the effects of various laws and policies in higher education. It illustrates how Muslim college students often navigate stigma and stereotypes fueled by Islamophobic rhetoric. For these and numerous other substantive reasons, I highly recommend Islamophobia in Higher Education. --Shaun R. Harper, Professor in the Rossier School of Education and the Marshall School of Business; Founder and Executive Director of the USC Race and Equity Center University of Southern California A seminal work of documented and expertly presented scholarship Islamophobia in Higher Education: Combating Discrimination and Creating Understanding is a critically important, timely, and unreservedly recommended addition to both college and university library Higher Education Administration, College & University Student Life, and Education Administration collections. --Midwest Book Review

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Shafiqa Ahmadi, JD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Education at the Rossier School of Education (Rossier) and the Co-Director for the Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice. She is an expert on diversity and legal protection of underrepresented students, including Muslims, bias and hate crimes, and sexual assault survivors. Prior to joining the Rossier faculty, she taught at the Gould School of Law and was a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Urban Education, at Rossier. She has also served as a Research Associate at the Research Institute at Rossier where she worked on a grant awarded by the Department of Education (DOE) designed to prevent and reduce on-campus sexual assault. Prior to joining USC, she worked for the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, where she investigated alleged violations of civil rights and discrimination in areas such as employment, housing, and access to state and state funded services.Ahmadi received her Doctor of Jurisprudence from Indiana University Maurer School of Law, at Bloomington, Indiana. While in law school and graduate school she focused on Employment Discrimination Law, Corporate International Law, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Islamic law (Shari ‘a). Dr. Darnell Cole is an Associate Professor of Education with an emphasis in higher education and education psychology. His areas of research include race/ ethnicity, diversity, college student experiences, and learning. Previously he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu). He was also a faculty member at Marquette University. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of North Carolina, at Charlotte and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is on the review board of the Journal of College Student Development.He has published over 40 articles, special issues, and book chapters. He is also featured in the major

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