Edna Chun, Alvin Evans

The Department Chair as Transformative Diversity Leader (eBook, ePUB)

Building Inclusive Learning Environments in Higher Education

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000971194
• Artikelnr.: 68356924

Autorenporträt

Edna Chun and Alvin Evans are award-winning authors and human resource and diversity thought 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 (Jossey-Bass, 2007) and Bridging the Diversity Divide:Globalization and Reciprocal Empowerment in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2009) were recipients of the prestigious Kathryn G. Hansen Publication Award by the national College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. In addition, 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 roadmap to the integration of HR and diversity strategy.Recent publications include Leading a Diversity Culture Shift in Higher Education (Routledge, 2018) that draws on extensive interviews with chief diversity officers and university leaders to provide a systematic approach to diversity organizational learning and The Department Chair as Transformative Leader (Stylus, 2015), the first research-based resource on the academic department chair's role in diversity transformation. Other books include Diverse Administrators in Peril: The New Indentured Class in Higher Education (Paradigm, 2012), the first in-depth interview study of the work experiences of minority, female, and LGBT administrators in higher education 2012) and Rethinking Cultural Competence in Higher Education: An Ecological Framework for Student Development ( Jossey-Bass, 2016), a study that draws on a survey of recent college graduates now working as professionals to offer leading-edge, integrative models for the attainment of diversity competence.Both authors are sought-after plenary speakers and facilitators at national conferences and

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations Foreword-Walter H. Gmelch Acknowledgments 1. Prelude 2.
Retooling the Educational Playing Field 3. The Chair's Vantage Point on
Diversity 4. Building a New Taxonomy for Diversity in the Academic
Department 5. The Chair's Leadership Role in Formal and Informal Processes
6. Bridge Building. The Chair's Role in Fostering Diversity Learning
Outcomes and Student Identity Development 7. Developing a Departmental
Action Plan for Diversity 8. Summation and Recommendations Appendix A.
Distribution of Chairs by Discipline, Region, and Institutional Type
Appendix B. Blind Spots and Levers About the Authors Index