Jeffrey F Milem, Ph.D.

Teaching

HED 601 Higher Education in the U.S. (PDF, 200kb)
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to higher education in the United States. This course will introduce students to a wide variety of literature on historical and contemporary issues facing the system of higher education in the U.S. Students will develop analytic, research, and communication skills that can be used to inform and improve educational research, policy, and practice. Existing literature sources, current events, and other resources—along with personal experiences and perspectives—will be used to enhance the teaching and learning that we do together.

HED 696 Race, Class and Gender in Higher Education (PDF, 204kb)
While the American higher education system is unparalleled in the world in the degree of access that it provides to its citizens and the diversity of institutions that comprise the system, it is marked by a long history of exclusion. Gaps in educational and professional attainments among minorities and women endure as one of its greatest challenges. Many of the issues of inequality are prevalent in several group experiences. Other issues seem to be more particularly relevant to the experience of specific groups. This course identifies common and distinctive issues that affect the experience of these groups in the system of higher education in this country.

HED 696c Readings in Critical Race Theory (PDF)
The purpose of this course is to provide students with an in-depth exposure to Critical Race Theory (CRT), with a particular focus regarding its relationship to the study of vexing problems in education. Critical Race Theory is an analytical framework that provides race-based epistemological, methodological, and pedagogical approaches to the study of inequalities in social institutions, especially in education.