Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Volume 22, Number 2

The assignment pushed me out of my comfort zone and forced me to write a paper that I would normally not write and for people that I would be afraid to say hi to. The most satisfaction I got out of this assignment was that Cheryl Klein from Scholastic Publishing e-mailed me back. . . . Quickly googling Cheryl Klein and seeing that she was an editor for the Harry Potter series of books made me ecstatic. Not that she was famous, per se, but rather that my deeply personal experience of reading "multicultural" literature and my perceptions of multiculturalism had been listened to by someone with a voice in the industry creating these types of books. (student response to an assignment, in Bach, in this issue, p. 17)