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Resources to support the Academic Affairs and Student Affairs Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Belonging (DEI-AB) Framework
DEI Training and Professional Development Resources
Articles and White Papers
- The Architecture of Inclusion: Advancing Workplace Equity in Higher EducationThis Article develops a paradigm for advancing workplace equality when the problems causing racial and gender under-participation are structural, and the legal environment surrounding diversity initiatives is uncertain. It first analyzes three key dilemmas that have limited the efficacy of prior diversity initiatives: limited capacity to institutionalize change, a legal minefield, and ineffective public accountability. It then offers three related ideas in service of advancing workplace equity through institutional transformation. Although its focus is on higher education, the Article develops an approach with more general applicability.
- Social Science Strategies for Managing Diversity: Industrial and Organizational Opportunities to Enhance InclusionWe draw from contemporary research across the social sciences to provide evidence-based recommendations for leveraging diversity. This overview considers strategies that can be enacted by individuals—both employees and managers—as well as those that can be adopted within organizations. Aligning such top-down and bottom-up efforts together may ultimately generate the most positive outcomes for people and their organizations.
Websites
- Project ImplicitProject Implicit is the product of a team of scientists whose research produced new ways of understanding attitudes, stereotypes, and other hidden biases that influence perception, judgment, and action.
- UCLA’s Office of Equity, Diversity and InclusionResources, toolkits, and training materials related to DEI, implicit bias, and faculty searches.
- Guide to Developing a Strategic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion PlanThis comprehensive guide provides several questions to consider and action steps to take related to developing a strategic diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) management plan.
- How to Develop a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion InitiativeProvides concrete advice related to developing a DE&I initiative, breaking it down into four main phases and nine action steps.
Books
- Does Diversity Make a Difference? Three Research Studies on diversity in College Classroomshis report contains three studies on diversity in college classrooms. Following a review of the historical background in the introduction, Part 1, "University Faculty Views about the Value of Diversity on Campus and in the Classroom," offers a discussion of various diversity issues, such as institutional and departmental values; effects on classrooms, research, and teaching; negative effects; student benefits; responses of faculty; and comparisons of male and female responses. Part 2, titled "College Missions, Faculty Teaching, and Student Outcomes in a Context of Low Diversity," analyzes the content of mission statements of top selective liberal arts colleges; discusses the experience at Macalester College; and summarizes the case for diversity. Part 3, "The Educational Possibility of Multi-Racial/Multi-Ethnic College Classrooms," attempts to understand the outcomes that result from interactions among diverse students by describing a qualitative study of specific interactive classrooms. Three overarching themes emerge: (1) racial and ethnic diversity is necessary but not sufficient for creating the most effective educational environment; (2) racial and ethnic diversity increases the educational possibilities of the classroom; and (3) multiracial/multiethnic classes enhance educational outcomes. Appended, as Part 4, is the faculty classroom diversity questionnaire, which focuses on faculty attitudes toward diversity at their institutions and in their own classrooms.
Toolkits
- Diversity Toolkit: A Guide to Discussing Identity, Power and PrivilegeThis toolkit can be used in a DEI training workshop. The workshop activities aim to build greater self-awareness of the politics of identity, power, and privilege in those who complete the activities. It ends with a section on recommended resources and one on resources for additional activities.
Guidebooks
- Equity & Inclusion Lens Guide (3rd ed.)“The NAO Equity & Inclusion Lens Guide is an interactive tool that will help you learn about equity and inclusion and how to apply it to your work. Change takes place in different ways and is ongoing. We are all learning. It is a lifelong process” (p. 5).
- Benefits and Challenges of Diversity in Academic Settings. (2nd Ed.)“This booklet discusses a wide variety of benefits and challenges of diversity in higher education. It offers suggestions for reaping the benefits and minimizing the challenges.”
Miscellaneous
Websites
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Guide for Organizations and ProfessionalsIncludes links to a number of resources for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in selection, compensation, and training, among others.
- Searchable repository of initiatives from the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicineIncludes specific university examples on many topics related to personnel issues and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI)Offers a repository of resources. Although specific to women in S&E, resources and best practices apply more broadly.
- American Association of University Professors (AAUP)The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) offers several resources related to diversity, discrimination, affirmative action, and racial justice
- The National Science Foundation's (NSF) ADVANCE programThe National Science Foundation's (NSF) ADVANCE program focuses on increasing women in the academic STEM workforce. For more than two decades, they have funded research and interventions. Most findings and best practices apply beyond women and STEM.
- Women in ScienceEthnography & Evaluation Research (E&ER) has conducted multiple research and evaluation studies of gender issues in the sciences. Our work addresses issues of equity and access for women in STEM fields, including topics such as work-life balance, institutional climate, women’s career pathways, and gender schemas.
- ADVANCE program at University of MichiganThe ADVANCE Program focuses on four areas relevant to the success of a diverse and excellent faculty: recruitment, retention, climate, and leadership development. Together, these encompass not only multiple stages of faculty careers but also multiple mechanisms by which faculty diversity and excellence at U-M are enhanced. The strategies we use to address our goals can be broadly categorized as: research and evaluation; knowledge and skill development; community building; and resources and support.
- STRIDE at University of MichiganThe STRIDE Committee provides information and advice about practices that will maximize the likelihood that diverse, well-qualified candidates for faculty positions will be identified, and, if selected for offers, recruited, retained, and promoted at the University of Michigan. The committee leads workshops for faculty and administrators involved in hiring.
- The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)Resources related to DEI and related topics.
Books
Cultural Diversity in Organizations by ISBN: 9781881052432Publication Date: 1994-03-07Winner of the 1994 George R. Terry Book Award given by the National Academy of Management to "the book judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of management knowledge." "In this book, I have assembled learnings from ten years of teaching, research, and consulting related to cultural diversity in organizations," writes Taylor Cox. "My objective is to provide a comprehensive text that would be useful as an aid for teaching, organization development, and scholarship." The result is a major advance in our understanding of cultural diversity and its effects on organizational behavior and performance. This book- o provides the most comprehensive base of knowledge yet assembled on the topic; o organizes the material around a powerful new conceptual model that frames the issue in a systematic way; o captures the enormous complexity of the topic by examining diversity on three levels of analysis-individual, group, and organizational-and by addressing diversity from multiple perspectives-theory, research, and practice.
Discrimination at Work by ISBN: 9780805852073Publication Date: 2004-11-05This volume brings together top scholars in industrial and organizational psychology with social psychologists to explore the research and theory relating to various areas of workplace discrimination. Many of the contributors to this book participated in a conference on workplace discrimination held at Rice University in May 2000. The idea came from the realization that there had been no attempt to bring together the various literatures on the topic. Discrimination and issues of employment diversity are significant topics today in IO psychology, business, and human resource management. This edited volume examines the following components of this important discussion: how to explain discrimination in organizations; understanding discrimination against specific groups; and implications for practical efforts to reduce discrimination. This book brings together, in one volume, a review of the research on discrimination based on race, age, sexual orientation, gender, physical appearance, disability, and personality. In addition, it explores the multilevel antecedents and potential bases for a general model of discrimination in the workplace. While social psychological research and theory have provided invaluable insights, an understanding of discrimination in the workplace and solutions will require incorporating factors at the organizational level in addition to factors at the individual and group levels. Although a definitive model is not reached, the aim of this text is to facilitate future research and theory.
Toolkits
- Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (J.E.D.I.) ToolkitThis toolkit offers a variety of resources to support people in their efforts to promote justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in their workplaces, as well as their lives.
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