In today s world whether viewed through a lens of educational
attainment, economic development, global competitiveness,
leadership capacity, or social justice and equity diversity is not
just the right thing to do, it is the only thing to do Following
the era of civil rights in the 1960s and 70s, the 1990s and early
21st century have seen both retrenchment and backlash years, but
also a growing recognition, particularly in business and the
military, that we have to educate and develop the capacities of our
citizens from all levels of society and all demographic and social
groups to live fulfilling lives in an inter-connected globe. For
higher education that means not only increasing the numbers of
diverse students, faculty, and staff, but simultaneously pursuing
excellence in student learning and development, as well as through
research and scholarship in other words pursuing what this book
defines as strategic diversity leadership. The aim is to create
systems that enable every student, faculty, and staff member to
thrive and achieve to maximum potential within a diversity
framework. This book is written from the perspective that diversity
work is best approached as an intellectual endeavor with a
pragmatic focus on achieving results that takes an evidence-based
approach to operationalizing diversity. It offers an overarching
conceptual framework for pursuing diversity in a national and
international context; delineates and describes the competencies,
knowledge and skills needed to take effective leadership in matters
of diversity; offers new data about related practices in higher
education; and presents and evaluates a range of strategies,
organizational structures and models drawn from institutions of all
types and sizes. It covers such issues as the reorganization of the
existing diversity infrastructure, building accountability systems,
assessing the diversity process, and addressing legal threats to
implementation. Its purpose is to help strategic diversity leaders
combine big-picture thinking with an on-the-ground understanding of
organizational reality and work strategically with key stakeholders
and allies. This book is intended for presidents, provosts, chief
diversity officers or diversity professionals, and anyone who wants
to champion diversity and embed its objectives on his or her
campus, whether at the level of senior administration, as members
of campus organizations or committees, or as faculty, student
affairs professionals or students taking a leadership role in
making and studying the process of change.This title is also
available in a set with its companion volume, "The Chief Diversity
Officer."
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