Bridging the Diversity Divide: Globalization and Reciprocal Empowerment in Higher Education
BY EDNA CHUN AND ALVIN EVANS
From the back cover:
The sweeping forces of globalization present new challenges for
higher education but also represent a clear mandate for change. This book is designed to assist campus leaders and educators in the difficult process of cultural transformation in support of diversity and inclusion. It explores the model of reciprocal empowerment as a moral framework linking the institution's values, culture, and workplace practices to the outside world through the prism of diversity.
This is a practical guide that provides concrete approaches and research-based strategies that will enable your institution to assess current practices, create successful action plans, and move beyond structural representation to true reciprocal empowerment. The measurement strategies, organizational learning tools, and best practices included here will assist institutions of higher education in building a flexible repertoire of institutional approaches to reciprocal empowerment and inclusion.
Only by systemic organizational change will universities bridge the diversity divide and create a campus culture that values and celebrates the contributions of all its members.
Diverse Administrators in Peril:
The New Indentured Class in Higher Education
From the Back Cover:
"This is an important book. Institutions of higher education in the United States stand at a crossroads. We face tremendous challenges: global competition, heightened expectations, reduced budgets, revolutionary technological changes, and new populations to serve. Yet for leaders who do not look like the expectations that other people have, there is often responsibility without authority. This is an ambitious effort to show how such individuals have adapted and succeeded, and it is much needed in today's academy."
-Chancellor Frank H. Wu,
University of California Hastings College of Law
"Barriers of discrimination, exclusion, and bias (both conscious and unconscious) must be replaced by inclusive and equitable practices. Chun and Evans provide troubling, but true, examples of current situations and excellent, clear recommendations for change."
-Andy Brantley,
President and CEO, College and University
Professional Association for Human Resources
"Chun and Evans go where few educational researchers have dared to tread. . . . This pioneering study tells us much about the everyday administrative and social realities and human and personal costs of being a well-educated, high-achieving American who is not a straight white man."
-From the Foreword by Joe R. Feagin
Diverse Administrators in Peril is the first in-depth examination of the work experiences of minority, female, and LGBT administrators in higher education. Written by two award winning practitioners in higher education, this vivid and intensive study of American leadership from the inside out illuminates how the collision between everyday life and systems of power takes place in patterns of subtle discrimination. Based on scores of interviews with diverse administrators, the book examines patterns of racism, sexism, and heterosexism that persist in the highest administrative ranks and provides concrete strategies and models for inclusive leadership practices.
