When Race and Class Both Matter: The Relationship between Socioeconomic Diversity, Racial Diversity, and Student Reports of Cross–Class Interaction

This paper delves into a facet of socioeconomic diversity relatively unaddressed in the literature: student reports of cross-class interaction ("reported CCI"). Previous research has found that student interaction across social class is a significant predictor of cross-racial interaction, but it is unknown whether the actual socioeconomic heterogeneity of a student body is significantly related to reported CCI. We use hierarchical linear modeling to identify predictors of reported CCI in the 2003 Freshman/2007 College Student Survey from the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute. In the final model, students who attended more socioeconomically diverse institutions and more racially diverse institutions reported higher levels of CCI. Findings suggest that reported CCI is linked to the actual socioeconomic heterogeneity of a student body. Measures of racial diversity (percent of students of color and diversity engagement), both at the institutional and student level, also predicted reported CCI. Thus, reported CCI is likely influenced by the racial diversity of a student body and other aspects of the campus racial climate, in addition to socioeconomic diversity. Implications for campus climate, diversity, and equity research are discussed

Processing of biomedical devices for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERM) aims at the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function or a whole organ. In a TERM strategy, the development of a manâ made/synthetic extracellular matrix (ECM) is a critical issue, since it is need to learn how to engineer biomaterial scaffold that will help in recapitulating the early events of morphogenesis. Currently, biomaterial scaffolds are designed to support cell and tissue growth, aiming at a macroscopic level to be compatible with the mechanical loading of the surrounding organs and tissues. This chapter provides an overview on the processing techniques of natural biomaterial scaffolds for TERM approaches. The use of microparticles in the context of TERM has been highly recommended due to its high versatility. Extrusion process has been used for compounding and/or shaping biomaterials. Rapid prototyping has emerged as a powerful polymer processing technique for the production of scaffolds in the tissue engineering area.(undefined)info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio