Change, especially cultural change, is slow and hard in academia, but change we must. And in changing, we must embrace the demographic changes that are happening in our world and on our campuses. Leading a Diversity Cultural Shift in Higher Education, with its rich case studies and analyses, provides a roadmap for building a campus where everyone belongs.
Robert S. Nelsen, President, California State University, Sacramento
It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to read Leading a Diversity Cultural Shift in Higher Education, by authors Edna Chun and Alvin Evans. Chun and Evans have provided a roadmap for institutions of higher education to transform the mindset of the academy to become more inclusive by inextricably linking the transgressions of our historical founding to the persistent challenges to achieving racial diversity and inclusion in modern day higher education. Let the robust dialogue now begin with a historical context in place!
Dennis A. Mitchell, DDS, MPH, Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion, Columbia University
Leading a Diversity Culture Shift in Higher Education is a must-read for any higher education administration practitioner or scholar. The book masterfully weaves illuminating anecdotes with the latest state of the art scholarship to provide a primer on the major diversity-related issues facing higher education leadership today. It provides a blueprint for thinking about positive institutional change.
Robert M. Sellers, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion & Chief Diversity Officer, University of Michigan
This research-based book by leading educators Edna Chun and Alvin Evans arrived at a critical moment in history, both domestic and international. A moment when we are experiencing a diversity cultural shift in higher education around the globe. Given my years of experience in the field of higher education and collaborative work with industry and healthcare organizations, this book is a must-read for practitioners, senior university administrators and industry executives.
Henry Odi, Deputy Vice President for Equity and Community and Associate Provost for Academic Diversity, Lehigh University
Leading a Diversity Culture Shift in Higher Education
Leading a Diversity Culture Shift in Higher Education offers a practical and timely guide for launching, implementing, and institutionalizing diversity organizational learning. The authors draw from extensive interviews with chief diversity officers and college and university leaders to reveal the prevailing models and best practices for strengthening diversity practices within the higher education community today. They complement this original research with an analysis of key contextual factors that shape the organizational learning process including administrative leadership, institutional mission and goals, historical legacy, geographic location, and campus structures and politics.
Given the substantive challenge of engendering a cultural shift for diversity in a university setting, this book will serve as a concrete primer for institutions seeking to develop a systematic and progressive approach to diversity organizational learning. Readers will be able to engage with provocative case studies that grapple with the current pressures emanating from diversity training and learn effective strategies for creating more inclusive environments.
This book is a perfect resource for institutional leaders, administrators, faculty members, and key campus constituencies who are seeking transformational change, institutional success, and stability in a rapidly diversifying national and global environment.
Edna Chun and Alvin Evans are award-winning authors and human resource and diversity leaders with extensive experience in complex, multi-campus systems of higher education. Two of their books, Are the Walls Really Down? Behavioral and Organizational Barriers to Faculty and Staff Diversity (2007) and Bridging the Diversity Divide: Globalization and Reciprocal Empowerment in Higher Education (2009), were the recipients of the prestigious Kathryn G. Hanson Publication Award by the national College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. They are also the authors of the first book appearing in Routledges Critical Viewpoints book series, Diverse Administrators in Peril (2012). Their co-authored book, The New Talent Acquisition Frontier: Integrating HR and Diversity Strategy in the Private and Public Sectors and Higher Education (Stylus, 2014), received a silver medal in the 2014 Axiom Business Book Awards and is the first book to provide a concrete road map to the integration of HR and diversity strategy.
Chun and Evans are also regular contributors to a number of leading journals on talent management, HR, and diversity strategies. The co-authors are frequent presenters at national conferences and symposia including the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, the Academic Chairpersons Conference, the Society for Human Resource Management, and the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity. Edna Chun is Chief Learning Officer and Alvin Evans serves as Higher Education Practice Leader for HigherEd Talent, a national human resources and diversity consulting firm.
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