Advancing Inclusive Excellence in Higher Education: Practical Approaches to PromotingDiversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

by Shawna Patterson-Stephens (Editor), Tamara Bertrand Jones (Editor)

Overview

The primary aim of this text is to provide educators with specific strategies for engaging in equity and inclusion work on college campuses. We include the perspectives of faculty and staff with a range of experiences and expertise to address current topics evolving at various levels and functional areas in the academy. Rather than replicate findings and recommendations established in extant literature, we provide faculty, staff, and graduate students with the insight and tools they will require to transform established recommendations into actionable solutions and promising practices. This book offers theoretical and practical approaches to evolving diversity, equity, and inclusion concerns in higher education.

The core themes of this volume center on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in higher education. While some educators use these terms interchangeably, we define diversity as a concept that envelopes several modes of social identity, including race, ethnicity, gender, ability, sexual orientation, faith/non-faith affiliation, size, veteran’s status, etc. The practice of fortifying representation amongst minoritized populations without making considerations for structure and support has been the primary model for diversifying the academy for the past 40 years. Within the context of higher education and diversity, our conversation shifts beyond ensuring marginalized communities are represented.

Within each chapter, the contributing authors address a wide range of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging topics that are unique to their positionality as educators in the postsecondary sector. As editors, we intentionally identify authors with diverse professional backgrounds who offer a range in their approaches to addressing emergent trends in their respective areas in higher education. In addition to submitting manuscripts that engage critical examinations of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the postsecondary sector, authors were encouraged to design supplemental material for their chapters, such as training modules, study guides, case studies, guides for utilizing critical research approaches and design, and interactive activities that can be replicated in various settings on campus (e.g., the classroom, residence halls, student organization trainings, etc.).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798887303086
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	08/16/2023
Series:	Contemporary Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Achievement
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword; Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher.
Chapter 1. Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Higher Education: Praxis, Pedagogy, and Research; Shawna Patterson-Stephens and Tamara Bertrand Jones.
Chapter 2. Feeding Fish to the Tiger to Survive: Interrogating Structures of Oppression in Higher Education; Kakali Bhattacharya, Jia Grace Liang, and Teara Lander.
Chapter 3. Problematizing Diversity: Imagining Inclusion Through a Liberated Lens; Charee Dee Mosby-Holloway and Sara C. Furr.
Chapter 4. Moving Towards Greatness: Implementing a Diversity Plan at an Urban Research Institution; Alicia W. Davis, Chance W. Lewis, and John A. Williams III.
Chapter 5. Recognizing and Addressing Implicit Bias in Adjudication and Title IX Procedures: A Case Study Approach; Shawna Patterson-Stephens.
Chapter 6. Building a Social Justice-Centered Higher Education and Student Affairs Program in California's Central Valley; Varaxy Yi, Susana Hernández, Ignacio Hernández, and Jonathan Pryor.
Chapter 7. The Black Male Research BootCamp: Intentionally Shaping Black Men's Doctoral Student Socialization; Jesse Ford, and Tamara Bertrand Jones.
Chapter 8. Meet Them in the Center: A Model for Embedded Sexual Misconduct Survivor Advocacy and Support Services; Sarah Colomé.
Chapter 9. Challenging Intersectional Marginalization in Identity Based Centers; Jonathan A. McElderry, Stephanie Hernandez Rivera, and Shannon Ashford.
Chapter 10. Resisting Interlocking Structures and Relations Through Social Justice Praxis: Insights From a Dialogic Exchange Between Three Black Women Academics; Talia R. Esnard, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, and Devona F. Pierre.
Chapter 11. The Journey Matters: Examining the Paths and Lived Experiences of African American Males for STEM Success; Latara O. Lampkin, Adrienne Stephenson, Andria Cole, Jonathan Townes, and Marquise L. Kessee.
Chapter 12. Not a Thing That We Talk About: Recommendations for Supporting and Engaging LGBQ+ Identified Caribbean Heritage Students; Louise Michelle Vital and Mike Hoffshire.
Chapter 13. Conclusion; Tamara Bertrand Jones and Shawna Patterson-Stephens.
Chapter 14. Epilogue—Advancing Inclusive Excellence in Higher Education: Implications for Moving Beyond Diversity to Create Equitable and Anti-Racist Institutions; Frank A. Tuitt.
About the Contributors.