Campus Diversity Triumphs

Valleys of Hope

Sherwood Thompson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited

Published:28th Aug '18

Should be back in stock very soon

Campus Diversity Triumphs cover

Today's Chief Diversity Officers face tremendous challenges. Among those are threats to Affirmative Action admissions and financial aid programs, the dearth of faculty and staff of color in Predominantly White Institutions, the scarcity of funds to carry out institutional diversity mandates, and the need to play mentor to a vast array of individuals--faculty, staff, students and community stakeholders--with minimum staff support. 
This book addresses how these and other challenges are tackled by providing valuable insight into the innovative work that Chief Diversity Officers perform. It provides insightful accounts into the diversity program successes and promising practices by diversity officers working on college and university campuses in the United States. Contributors draw upon their experiences as educators working to sustain diversity, inclusion, multiculturalism, and social justice on college campuses and describe how they have designed successful diversity and inclusive excellence initiatives which had a profound positive impact on all demographic populations.

Describing successful diversity and inclusion programs on their campuses, contributors from US (and one Canadian) colleges and universities discuss innovation, perspectives, and trends; diversity in medical universities and health care; and institutional inclusive excellence. Their topics include building a diversity and inclusion certification for transformative campus change, diversity need not apply: the reality of campus culture, building institutional climate support for under-represented students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, the senior diversity officer: a beacon for campus diversity and inclusion, and carpe diem in two acts: how an equity and diversity framework anchors and activates equity and diversity work in higher education. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *

ISBN: 9781787148062

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 513g

272 pages