{"id":179,"date":"2013-06-28T09:50:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=179"},"modified":"2013-06-28T09:50:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:50:18","slug":"monsters-university-and-college-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/06\/28\/monsters-university-and-college-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsters University and College Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Inside Higher Education<\/em> article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2013\/06\/21\/monsters-university-explores-value-diversity-college-settings\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;College is Scary&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Kevin Kiley reviews the new film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1453405\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Monsters University<\/em><\/a>. He notes, &#8220;but\u00a0more than a comment on college, Monsters University is a film about diversity, the innate differences between individuals, and the institutions and situations that help foster connections and understanding between those individuals.&#8221; He adds, &#8220;it is in the dynamic between Sulley and Mike [two very different students] that the film comes closest to exploring what college administrators say people actually get out of a residential campus experience. The two challenge each other in ways that an assignment or professor likely couldn&#8217;t.&#8221; I&#8217;m going to check out the film today to see just how the dynamic plays out, which may come in handy as I start working with UW-Parkside students in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwp.edu\/departments\/residence.life\/explorellc.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Exploration Living-Learning Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Inside Higher Education article &#8220;College is Scary&#8221;\u00a0Kevin Kiley reviews the new film Monsters University. He notes, &#8220;but\u00a0more than a comment on college, Monsters University is a film about diversity, the innate differences between individuals, and the institutions and situations that help foster connections and understanding between those individuals.&#8221; He adds, &#8220;it is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22222,22229,22214],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-academic-administration","tag-living-learning-communities-llcs","tag-media-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}