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Our newest updates focus on faculty and staff development with a focus on diversity. New content includes national facultystaff development web sites such as Professional and Organizational Development in Higher Education Network (POD) and Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning Diversity Resource Pages. Also, publications regarding the experineces of faculty and staff include: Diversity and Merit: How One University Rewards Faculty Work That Promotes Equity as well as Faculty of Color: Teaching in Predominantly White Colleges and Universities (2006). Look through all our faculty and staff pages here and here for additional resources.
The Association of American College’s and Universities held its latest conference “Diversity, Learning and Inclusive Excellence: Accelerating and Assessing Progress” from October 16 – October 18, 2008 in Long Beach, California. The official resource page features downloadable PowerPoint presentations, program summaries, and podcasts of keynote addresses which showcased current trends, practices, and research related to diversity and inclusive excellence in higher education from leading experts in the field. The presentations cover a wide range of topics including: assessment, mission statements, organizational change frameworks, curriculum development, and pedagogical innovations that provide an enriching snapshot of diversity and inclusive excellence work from across the country.
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Post-Docs, Scholarships and Fellowships... (2 new)
UCLA: 2009-10 Postdoctoral/Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies
In Conferences... (1 New)
Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference: "Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies"
In Calls for Papers... (2 new)
Academic Exchange Quarterly: Religion, Spirituality and Education
In Position Openings... (3 new)
Biomedical Engineering Faculty Position
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Diversity & Democracy
Socioeconomic class has dramatic effects on opportunity within and beyond college—yet it is a challenging topic of conversation for students and faculty alike. The current issue of Diversity & Democracy provides some tools to guide difficult discussions about class in the hopes of creating more inclusive campuses and a more equitable world beyond. |
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On Campus with Women
The latest issue of On Campus with Women examines new practices that are improving student retention and engagement in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The issue explores how feminist pedagogies, by connecting academic learning and personal experience, can transform cultures and classrooms to be more inclusive and hospitable to all students, particularly women across races and ethnicities whose participation in certain fields remains low. |
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More Reasons for Hope: Diversity Matters in Higher Education
Honoring the late Edgar Beckham and his profound influence on higher education, More Reasons for Hope examines the trends in diversity education since an earlier AAC&U monograph published a decade ago called Reasons for Hope. The monograph features a major address by Edgar Beckham that identifies intellectual, structural, and political challenges that need to be addressed in the next generation of diversity work. It charts progress and setbacks and includes more than thirty current exemplary campus diversity programs, policies, and practices from across the country. |
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A Measure of Equity: Women's Progress in Higher Education
This publication presents presents the only current comprehensive overview of data on women’s status in higher education. It documents areas of progress and identifies needed action to move even further down the path towards equity for women in higher education. This publication details specific areas of concern and actions that would advance gender equity in colleges and universities. The research examines women’s access to college, areas of study in undergraduate and post-graduate work, and women’s status as faculty, administrators, and college presidents.
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