DEI on Campus: Selected Books and Articles
Books
See below for a selection of relevant titles; check out our new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ebook collection; or click here to search the catalog for recent titles on DEI in higher education.
America's Unmet Promise: The Imperative for Equity in Higher Education by Call Number: LC213.2 .W58 2015ISBN: 9780989097239Publication Date: 2015Includes data on college completion and educational opportunity, and frameworks and principles for evaluating equity and advancing institutional change
Committing to equity and inclusive excellence : a campus guide for self-study and planning by Call Number: LC212.42 .C65 2015 Oversize Collection (2nd Floor)Publication Date: 2015Provides a framework for needed dialogue, self-assessment, and action designed to advance equity and inclusive excellence.
Diversity's Promise for Higher Education by Call Number: LC3727 .S65 2015ISBN: 9781421417349Publication Date: 2015Draws on 50 years of diversity studies to offer students, researchers, and administrators an innovative approach to developing and instituting effective and sustainable diversity strategies.
Diversity and Inclusion on Campus by Call Number: LC1099.3 .W545 2014ISBN: 0415807077Publication Date: 2013Contains case studies, coverage of theory and research, and discussion questions to assist higher education and student affairs practitioners working toward full inclusion and participation for all students in higher education.
Ebony and Ivy by Call Number: LC212.42 .W53 2013ISBN: 9781596916814Publication Date: 2013A leading African American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy, revealing that leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
From Equity Talk to Equity Walk by ISBN: 9781119237945Publication Date: 2020A practical guide for achieving equitable outcomes From Equity Talk to Equity Walk offers practical guidance on the design and application of campus change strategies for achieving equitable outcomes.
Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9780429787119Publication Date: 2020Higher Education Administration for Social Justice and Equity empowers all administrators in higher education to engage in their work—to make decisions, hire, mentor, budget, create plans, and carry out other day-to-day operations—with a clear commitment to justice, sensitivity to power and privilege, and capacity to facilitate equitable outcomes.
The Department Chair As Transformative Diversity Leader by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 1620362392Publication Date: 2015This book examines the multidimensional contributions that chairs make in advancing diversity within their departments and institutions in the representation of diverse faculty and staff; in tenure and promotion; curricular change; student learning outcomes; and departmental climate.
Why Aren't We There Yet? by Call Number: LC212.42 .W47 2012ISBN: 1579227481Publication Date: 2012This book focuses on guiding individuals and groups through learning how to have difficult conversations that lead us to act to create more just campuses, and provides illustrations of multiple ways to respond to difficult situations.
Articles
- Cabrera, N. L., Watson, J. S., & Franklin, J. D. (2016). Racial arrested development: A critical Whiteness analysis of the campus ecology. Journal of College Student Development, 57(2), 119-134.
- Ellis, J. M., Powell, C. S., Demetriou, C. P., Huerta-Bapat, C., & Panter, A. T. (2018). Examining first-generation college student lived experiences with microaggressions and microaffirmations at a predominately White public research university. Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology, doi:10.1037/cdp0000198.
- Iverson, S. (2007). Camouflaging power and privilege: a critical race analysis of university diversity policies. Educational Administration Quarterly, 43(5), 586-611.
- Nicolazzo, Z., Marine, S. B., & Wagner, R. (2018). From Best to Intentional Practices: Reimagining Implementation of Gender-Inclusive Housing. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 1-12.
- Patton, L. D. (2016). Disrupting postsecondary prose: Toward a critical race theory of higher education. Urban Education, 51(3), 315-342.
- Pitcher, E. N., Camacho, T. P., Renn, K. A., & Woodford, M. R. (2018). Affirming policies, programs, and supportive services: Using an organizational perspective to understand LGBTQ+ college student success. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 11(2), 117-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000048
- US Department of Education. (2016). Advancing diversity and inclusion in higher education: key data highlights focusing on race and ethnicity and promising practices.
Terms and Definitions
- Diversity Style GuideThe Diversity Style Guide from the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism at San Francisco State University defines more than 700 terms related to race/ethnicity, disability, immigration, sexuality and gender identity, drugs and alcohol, and geography from more than two dozen style guides, journalism organizations and other resources.
- Gender PronounsThe LGBTQ+ Resource Center at UW-Milwaukee has compiled some helpful FAQs and background information.
Implicit Bias Test
- Project Implicit
The Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures the strength of associations between concepts (e.g., black people, gay people) and evaluations (e.g., good, bad) or stereotypes (e.g., athletic, clumsy).
Diversity Studies
- Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to over 150 scholarly journals and magazines that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
